Room to Improve will not return to our screens until next year Angeline Ball, Lisa Hogg and Elaine Cassidy in Acceptable Risk To lose one husband in mysterious circumstances may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Your screen name should follow the standards set out in our A city manager and the manager of a local chemical plant rise up against their employers to keep a town safe from contaminants in this made-for-television movie. Irish TV drama could always do with being a bit more outward-looking anyway, while co-productions, which provide a vital injection of lifeblood for comparatively small broadcasters like RTE, are the way forward.The problem with Acceptable Risk is that it’s strictly run-of-the-mill stuff: reasonably watchable but not grippingly so.There’s nothing much to make it stand out from a crowded field of murder mysteries and conspiracy thrillers set in the murky world of corporate skulduggery. RTE’s much-hyped new six-part drama, Acceptable Risk, is a co-production with Canadian company Facet4 and is filmed in Montreal and Dublin.Written by the seasoned Ron Hutchinson, whose long list of credits includes highs such as HBO’s The Tuskegee Airmen (1995) and lows like the disastrous 1996 film of The Island of Dr Moreau – though the blame for that turkey rested squarely with its eccentric and self-indulgent star Marlon Brando’s destructive behaviour – it’s a one-size-fits-all conspiracy thriller aimed very much at the broad international market. . . When Sarah’s sister (Lisa Dwyer Hogg) goes to the airport to pick up Lee’s car, she catches Man-Bun Guy rooting around the underbody. Acceptable Risk, the Irish crime drama starring Elaine Cassidy, focuses on a woman trying to piece together the mysteries surrounding her recently murdered husband (Paul Popowich). “I know the ropes.”When suave and secretive businessman Lee Manning is discovered with a bullet in his brain, his body dumped in what the police are politely hesitant to call Montreal’s Red Light District, it initiates a transatlantic investigation between Canadian police and the In another sign of the times, one of its major characters is not a person, but a corporation, described, a little needily, as “one of the biggest . It might have gotten 5 stars from me, except that it is a little drawn out for the first 5 episodes and then rushed at the end. Please choose a screen name. This name will appear beside any comments you post.
Commenting on The Irish Times has changed. Please choose a screen name. When you have reset your password, you can Review: Acceptable Risk Acceptable Risk is an Irish mini-series about a woman whose husband is murdered while he’s on a business trip to Montreal.
Please subscribe to sign in to comment. Could it be Hans Werner Hoffman (Morten Suurballe from The Killing), the suave but slightly sinister head of Gumbiner-Fischer, or perhaps his head of security Barry Lehane (Risteard Cooper), an ex-cop who spits out his lines as though he spends his entire leisure time reading hardboiled crime novels. Acting is superb. Hutchinson’s script, at least in last night’s opener, is efficient rather than compelling, while director Kenny Glenaan, who helmed RTE’s risible Charlie Haughey biopic in 2015, gives the whole thing a slick but soulless sheen.Sarah Manning (Elaine Cassidy) is distraught when her Canadian husband Lee (Paul Popowich), a high-flying executive with Dublin-based global pharma giant Gumbiner-Fischer, is shot in the back of the head and dumped on the street while on a business trip to Montreal.To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one husband may be regarded as unfortunate; to lose two looks like dirty tricks. Byrne finds Sarah disconcertingly opaque, a woman beginning a tragic hobby in widowhood, but all I can tell you about Angeline Ball’s sleuth is that she dreams of uneaten takeaways, can ID petty criminals from memory, and will comfortably crack wise with Cooper’s ex-cop when the pharma company wages its own intrusive investigation.But Ball’s performance – easy, unforced, commendably underplayed – makes her seem most at home with the drama’s unhurried wariness, alive to its maze of deflective surfaces. most important and powerful” firms in Dublin. To comment you must now be an Irish Times subscriber. Your screen name should follow the standards set out in our For the best site experience please enable JavaScript in your browser settings They have spoilers, so you won't want to watch them before you've seen the full series.
There’s nothing wrong with that. Angeline Ball, Lisa Hogg and Elaine Cassidy in Acceptable Risk To lose one husband in mysterious circumstances may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Gillian Anderson shares throwback photos of co-star Jamie Dornan as The Fall rises on Netflix Gumbiner-Fischer is a transnational pharmaceutical company whose culture seems to be one of zealous surveillance and heavy-handed exposition. I enjoyed "Acceptable Risk". ‘Even in a pre-Covid world, Mirror Pavilion would have been spectacular’Greta Thunberg is going back to school.
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As it happens, he also worked for Gumbiner-Fischer.Come to that, Sarah herself used to work for the company and has just turned down the chance to return to her job when world-weary cop Det Sgt Emer Byrne (Angeline Ball) turns up at the door of her swanky home (which, I read somewhere the other day, is Def Leppard guitarist Rick Savage’s Wicklow pad) to break the bad news from Montreal.Things take a decidedly sinister turn when the Montreal cops discover a handgun made from polycarbonate, which would be undetectable to airport scanners, in Lee’s hotel room. Sarah Manning (Cassidy) is trying to look out for her two children and start a new chapter in her life when news of Lee’s murder comes back to Ireland. Like her character, the programme has made its own workmanlike introduction, laying little on the line so far. When first we see her she’s on the phone in Dublin telling …