Death and Nightingales: Season 1

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Summary: Allan Cubitt's three-part miniseries adaptation of Eugene McCabe's novel set in 1883 where 23-year-old Beth (Ann Skelly) plans to kill her step-father Billy Winters (Matthew Rhys) with the help of one of his tenants, Liam Ward (Jaime Dornan).
[Premiered originally in Ireland on RTE on 26 Nov 2018, in the UK on BBC 2 on 28 Nov 2018 andAllan Cubitt's three-part miniseries adaptation of Eugene McCabe's novel set in 1883 where 23-year-old Beth (Ann Skelly) plans to kill her step-father Billy Winters (Matthew Rhys) with the help of one of his tenants, Liam Ward (Jaime Dornan).
[Premiered originally in Ireland on RTE on 26 Nov 2018, in the UK on BBC 2 on 28 Nov 2018 and in the US on Starz on 16 May 2021] … Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E3. Episode #1.3
Air Date: December 12, 2018
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S1:E2. Episode 2
Air Date: May 8, 2020
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S1:E1. Episode #1.1
Air Date: November 28, 2018

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The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Apr 23, 2021

The politics and sectarianism have so far only been sketched lightly – although you can sense the palette being readied for the coming episodes – but Beth’s function as Ireland’s religious conflict made flesh, and her bid to escape her stepfather’s control and increasingly malign intent as an analogy for this period of Irish history, is clear without being heavy-handed. Read full review

Tara Bennett

May 12, 2021

As far as Irish tragedies go, Death and Nightingales gets points for authenticity in pain and suffering. However, if you were hoping for some frothiness and passion along with your doomed love story, this one isn’t for you. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Apr 23, 2021

It is a heavy drama with lean dialogue and precious little mirth, but I'm being seduced. Read full review

The Independent Ed Cumming

Apr 23, 2021

The desired tone, I think, is a kind of Ulster version of Deadwood, a creation parable for the problems of the 20th century, but there is a fine line between powerful and self-parodic. Without a novel’s finesse and complex sense of interiority, the characters fail to make us care. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Roxana Hadadi

May 10, 2021

The performances are mostly strong, but the subject matter is so dense, the cultural and religious details so complex, and the affection toward melodrama so unrepentant that “Death and Nightingales” slides into tedium disappointingly often. Read full review

Joel Keller

May 17, 2021

Despite the performances by the miniseries’ leads, Death And Nightingales is just too boring and inaccessible to really get into; by the end of the first episode, we were even more in the dark about the story than we were at the beginning. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: May 16, 2021
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  S1:E3. Episode #1.3
  Air Date: December 12, 2018
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  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: May 8, 2020
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  S1:E1. Episode #1.1
  Air Date: November 28, 2018