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Dónal Lynch

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aka Charlie Sheen: Season 1 (2025) 75% EDIT “And Sheen, “somehow makes a disreputable character loveable”. More than anything though, he makes the debauchery entertaining. And that, rather than any remorse, is the overriding impression of this film.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Righteous Gemstones: Season 4 (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “If seasons two and three were a bit like Succession – the siblings circling in a holding pattern of vying to be top dog – this one warms its one-liners with a little more sentimentality and heartfelt moments.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Hacks: Season 4 (2025) 98% 2/5 EDIT “By all means watch it for the art-imitating-life-imitating art dimensions, but don’t believe the hosannas of hype. Hacks is just plain old hacky.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Apr 20, 2025 Full Review Married to the Game: Season 2 (2025) EDIT “...if you’re still craving that Wagatha drama, we highly recommend not bothering with Married to the Game – and hold out for whatever Coleen [Rooney] is cooking up instead.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Apr 10, 2025 Full Review The White Lotus: Season 3 (2025) 86% EDIT “The White Lotus may be a chain, but it delivers like no other.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Central Intelligence: The Agency: Season 1 66% EDIT “The episodes seem far too long, and large swathes of screentime feel like treading water; it's as slow as molasses. ” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Jan 3, 2025 Full Review Matlock: Season 1 (2024) 90% EDIT “Themes like addiction, corporate greed, and wrongful imprisonment are handled with deft touches of poignancy and humour and the supporting cast comes into its own as the series progresses.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nov 18, 2024 Full Review Say Nothing: Season 1 (2024) 94% EDIT “And, like the Troubles themselves, there are no easy winners and losers in this compelling series.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nov 9, 2024 Full Review The Diplomat: Season 2 (2024) 95% EDIT “In all that it does, after all, stumble on the current ­zeitgeist in an echo of the choice facing US voters. It’s just something of a shame that this feminist message couldn’t be wrapped in something more substantial.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nov 9, 2024 Full Review Rivals: Season 1 (2024) 95% EDIT “The series strikes the right balance between comedic – there’s a smorgasbord of great one-liners – and genuinely raunchy. ” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 14, 2024 Full Review In Vogue: The 90s: Season 1 (2024) 78% EDIT “The outfits and lighting are fabulous and the roster of guests is beyond starry – Naomi Campbell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Ford, Donna Karan and Liz Hurley are all interviewed here – but their contributions are incredibly banal.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Sep 19, 2024 Full Review Fantasmas: Season 1 (2024) 94% EDIT “A witty and thought-provoking series from a completely original mind and it shows that even in an ocean of played-out streaming dross, there is still the possibility for something new.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Aug 8, 2024 Full Review Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial: Season 1 100% EDIT “Still, in a streaming universe crowded with Nazi documentaries, the deftness and insight with which Berlinger tells the story is illuminating.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Jun 25, 2024 Full Review Becoming Karl Lagerfeld: Season 1 (2024) 80% EDIT “This is a ­serialised portrait of pain, longing and ­decadence that humanises the man behind the the scowl.” – Irish Independent Jun 4, 2024 Full Review Ripley: Season 1 (2024) 86% EDIT “By the denouement of this gripping story you will have fallen in love with a monster.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Palm Royale: Season 1 (2024) 56% EDIT “The vicious “eat the rich” sentiments of other shows of the last few years -- such as White Lotus -- are softened and muted here; it’s never quite clear that what Maxine is striving toward is really worth it after all.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Life & Beth: Season 2 (2024) 89% EDIT “[It's] about the arc between idealising someone, realising that they’re in fact, just a patchwork of flaws tied together with good intentions, and then loving them anyway. It’s definitely “work”, as Beth acknowledges, but it sure is worth it.” – Independent (UK) Feb 29, 2024 Full Review sMothered: Season 2 (2020) EDIT “A comedy about dating by one of the writers on Schitt’s Creek, featuring a talented and beautiful cast (including Aisling Bea) really sounds promising – what’s not to like? Everything, actually.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2024 Full Review sMothered: Season 1 (2019) EDIT “The opening episode alone is a dreadful slog of bad jokes and affected eccentricity.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2024 Full Review John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial: Season 1 (2023) 45% EDIT “This documentary gives new insights to the well-known facts around Lennon’s death...” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2024 Full Review Cristóbal Balenciaga: Season 1 (2024) 86% EDIT “If you loved Halston this will float your boat.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2024 Full Review Love on the Spectrum U.S.: Season 2 (2024) EDIT “There’s an undeniable sweetness to this series...” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2024 Full Review The Artful Dodger: Season 1 (2023) 92% EDIT “An Oliver Twist prequel might sound anything but tempting, but this series, which transports Dickens’s cheeky chappie to 1850s Australia where he’s become an entertainer, has winning performances...” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2024 Full Review Six Nations: Full Contact: Season 1 (2024) EDIT “In sticking to pre-arranged stars and sequences, and serving the widest audience possible, they miss the full drama of sports’ unscripted moments. Those hoping for a fitting testament to Ireland’s incredible tournament will leave feeling short-changed.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2024 Full Review A Nearly Normal Family: Season 1 (2023) 78% EDIT “The sights and sounds aren’t quite enough to save this overlong script and despite its lofty ambitions, and sleek surfaces, A Nearly Normal Family is only nearly good.” – Sunday Independent (Ireland) Feb 5, 2024 Full Review
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