News about Aidan Gillen

ITV fans have claimed an Irish crime thriller is 'better than' the hit Irish series Kin. While the two Irish gritty dramas resemble one another, viewers have said Kin is a 'poor man's version' of Love/ Hate.

One of the stars from Irish crime drama Kin has teased the fate of the show's infamous Kinsella clan ahead of a much-anticipated third season. The RTE gangland thriller, featuring Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne, Aidan Gillen and Ciaran Hinds has had viewers glued to two seasons since it debuted in 2021. Kin was an instant hit on the Irish channel, with the season two finale pulling in nearly 600,000 viewers, before both seasons were rushed onto BBC One and BBC iPlayer by February 2024.

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What would you do?If you were walking the dog and found a truckload of cocaine next to a couple of corpses on a deserted beach, would you ignore the bodies and steal the drugs? It's a ridiculous thing. Jack and Harry Williams, writers, don't want us to take it seriously. They're really asking is... "Yeah, but what if?" trolls are asking. No other British screenwriters dare to do this, putting the credibility of the opening credits to the test and then stretching them. We have the wildly improved version of the boat story (BBC1), with three children shrieling in delight at a fractured head in a field. It's like the Just William version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.