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Brendan O'Connor on RTE Radio 1. Listen back on the RTE Radio Player app.
OK, time now for The Watchlist, our guide to the best film and TV for the week ahead. And I'm joined this week by author Henrietta McCurvey and host of the Extra Vision podcast, Andy McCarl. Good afternoon, guys. Welcome. Henrietta, a couple of crime shows to start with. So Criminal Record with Peter Capaldi is back on Apple TV for season two.
Yes.
Yeah, is it good?
It is. I find with Netflix shows, I skip the recap. And with Apple shows, I have to watch the recap because they tend to be quite dense and meaty and there's a lot going on. And this in the same way that season one was, which was a wrongful conviction plot. We have Peter Capaldi, DCI, Daniel Hegarty back and we now know that he's corrupt. And once again, we are joined by the ever-excellent Kush Jumbo as DS June Lenker. She's still fighting the system. In the first episode of this season, she becomes haunted by her failure to save a teenage boy being murdered by far-right extremists at a political rally. And so we're off. You know, we're straight back into it.
What crime shows are highlighted in this episode?
London looks amazing in its kind of seedy beauty that Apple brings to these shows, like Slow Horses. There's a lot going on, but it's absolutely excellent.
OK, so if you don't like those kind of ITV bland police procedurals, this has an extra bit of Apple magic to it.
It absolutely does. The dial's turned up quite high.
So that's Criminal Record and that's back on Apple TV for season two. Andy, tell me then about Legends on Netflix. This seems like an odd choice for Steve Coogan to be in.
Yeah, it's a true story of customs officials in the UK in the 90s that went undercover to basically catch drug dealers because they would have people on the front line. They thought they wouldn't be as corrupt. I think the issue is the casting of Coogan. I think he is Alan Partridge. And because he's played him every five years, that's who he is. You even saw it in Saipan last year where he's playing Mick McCarthy as Alan Partridge. And I think when you look at people like Rowan Atkinson, who's like Blackadder, Mr Bean, or to a certain extent, demographic he's Johnny English he didn't go back to the well with that whereas Coogan every couple of years has another Alan Partridge so you don't forget that and this I feel like it's a bit of miscasting in an otherwise very interesting show okay yeah so Coogan tries to escape the Alan Partridge all the time but he keeps going back it's like a Sisyphean tragedy okay that's Legends on Netflix from Thursday Henrietta
I do feel if the people from 100 years ago could see how we're all pouring over their business now, they wouldn't be happy because people weren't into anyone knowing their business back then. But everyone's at it. Come to your senses starts tonight at 6.30pm on RT1 and the RT Player.
That's right, yeah. And tonight, so it's six guests over two episodes, each delving into their own version of the census, like what their 1926 for their family or home place was like. Tonight is Dermot Bannon, the trade unionist Mick Lynch and the Radio Naguelta presenter, Gormla Ní Thuris. And next week, Joe O'Connor, Louise Duffy and Eileen Walsh, who narrates. I mean, the National Archives reported 20 million hits on the website within a day of releasing this. You know, the 1926 census. So we're obviously mad into it. And it is really interesting watching people go back to this. As Mick Lynch says in tonight's, he said that Ireland shed people and it shed them all over the world. And this is an example of some people just going back to see what they find.
And yes, there is emigration and poverty and disease, but there's also hope and people finding new lives for themselves. And you get to see people, like people talking about their grandparents before their grandparents had met. And it's a really interesting way to see, you know... History captures people like we might see photos of our grandparents as older people. Or, you know, we have people like later in their lives or through death.
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