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Bloodlands review – James Nesbitt digs up the Troubles in tense thriller – The Guardian

Produced by Line of Duty creator, Jed Mercurio, this four-parter is enjoyably dense with enough black humour to let it breathe

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Daughters birthday party; kip on her sofa; off to work the next day; gun checked; then a call that a former senior member of the IRA turned local businessman has gone missing and his van is currently being dragged out of a nearby lough. Such is the life of weary police detective Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt) in new four-part BBC One drama Bloodlands.
Originally written as a calling-card project by actor-turned-writer Chris Brandon, it was noticed by Jed Mercurio (creator of a string of critical and/or…

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