- Network: Prime Video , Amazon Prime Video
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 16, 2021
Critic Reviews
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
If it had dialogue more like, say, Derry Girls or Father Ted, or indeed Catastrophe, it could be sublime. It’s not terrible but, like so much about our lives at the moment, there’s something missing.
-
Beyond the endless jokes about poo and sex, it was this seam of sibling tenderness that kept it ticking along. That was just as well as the giggles were of the whoopee-cushion-at-a-funeral variety.
-
Frank of Ireland is under three hours of total bingeing — brief but still a long time to be deliberating on whether a show is a bad man-child comedy or a spotty parody of bad man-child comedies.
-
Overall, the sense is of an opportunity wasted – especially as the series wears on and there is no sign of any change or enlightenment, apart from tiny, insubstantial flashes from poor, downtrodden Doofus. Still, it will do the Gleesons – rightly established and acknowledged talents in film and television – no harm. You just wish it could have done us some good.
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 1 out of 4
-
Mixed: 1 out of 4
-
Negative: 2 out of 4
-
Apr 19, 2021Very disappointing. If you want some good Irish comedy, try Moon Boy. Young Bucks is a better version of this, but not by much.
-
Apr 17, 2021