The first of three feature-length episodes, based on a series of novels about ex-Gard, now private detective, Jack Taylor (Iain Glen). Think 'Single-Handed' with a sozzled, grizzled version of Jack (they're both called Jack!) and you're close. Both are set in and around Galway and Connemara and involve a lone man seeking the truth and justice for the missing and murdered in an area haunted by a long and violent past. The present's not that great either, post-economic crisis.
That's it, really. It's nothing you haven't seen before, and aside from some quips the script is unremarkable either way. Casting, however, is crucial. Iain Glen is so watchable as Jack, a character who seems simultaneously at ease with yet wholly estranged from himself, that your ears will willingly block out the moments when his Irish accent goes south, or rather south-east.
