“Initially, Say Nothing depicts the IRA in the early 70s as moustachioed folk heroes, upsetting the odds against the stuffed-shirt Brit bullies with wit and charisma [through the lens of DP Kanamé Onoyama, AFC]. If this is thrilling, cops-and-robbers stuff, it is also guilty entertainment: there is a needling sense that it is romanticising the conflict. But the early episodes exist to cast a shadow: Say Nothing should be watched as a whole, because it soon develops into something more elegiac and profound.”

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