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Classic example of trying to flog a franchise idea too quickly without enough material. Season 1 was very good, Season 2 was ok, Season 3 falls off a cliff. They have about 90mins worth of material on Ed Gein so why they thought stretching that to 8 episodes with a "fictionalised version" of events (made up characters/events, unnecessary boring links to movies he 'inspired') is beyond me. Feel bad for Charlie Hunsn who adopts a strange Irish accent despite Gein's German heritage.

I fell in with this when the first season dropped and got everyone I knew to watch it. How refreshing to see so many taboo subjects opening explored but, and here's the key, in a serious BUT FUNNY way. It offered light and shade. There were moments of real levity.

I'm a staunch ally, as I guess the majority of fans are, but I found this final season a TOTAL DISASTER. I'm not sure if there were new writers, but it lacks heart, humour, I felt like I was being preached at. The acting is wooden and the writIng is lazy. Am a straight male in his 40's with 4 grown up children and I don't need to be spoon fed situations to bring my attention to the battles the LGBTQIA+ community faces on a daily basis. There were too many new characters introduced for what had already been announced was a final season, in what felt like an attempt to "tick as many boxes" as possible but the result is a jumbled mess that doesn't really give ANY of the issues the time/sympathetic writing they deserve. You lose sight of the core characters, and by the end, the pay-off (which disappoints) just left me thinking 'meh'.

A film you 'appreciate' perhaps more than you 'enjoy'. This is a story of struggle against change. With one man wanting to break free of what he fears he's become whilst the other fights to keep things the way he feels most comfortable and you can't help but empathise with both, and the credit there lies in the performances of both Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson who reprise their "In Bruge" chemistry. Yes, the pacing is a little slow in places, but then I'm sure life was in Ireland in the 1920's but the journey is worth it. A stand-out performance by Barry Keoghan as the affable "slow coach" on the island deserves the credit it's receiving, likewise Kerry Condon as the put-upon sister so desperate to be seen.