Purgatory

I don't real the program name Purgatory applied to what the audience had to endure. It is obvious the writer and director changed. The episodes went from moderately good the S3E1 a downgrade and continued to this unwatchable trash. Not many shows I turn off midway, but the thing was unbearable.

The story was absurd with a head of security wearing stiletto shoes with a simpleton personality. The client was a ridiculous troupe of the dopes in Silicon Valley.

And somehow Jack just has to a more extreme a55hat than is remotely possible.

Do yourself a favor and instead of this waste of time, go to the laundromat and watch a drier spin.

I would have thought this deserved another season. I don't know the story behind it only lasting nine episodes, but proved very entertaining. In this final episode, Jack comes into conflict with a big time computer developer and his psychotic wife (this show featured some of the nastiest women ever presented). A story is told of her cold blooded murder of her husband in order to move on from him. Jack has been hired by the developer to get back a stolen game, worth millions. This brings him together with young people who are the life blood of the development of these sophisticated games, especially a pretty young woman who is soon after found floating int he river, her head crushed. There is lots of stuff under the surface and a sort of subculture that exists to do its own creating. Kate is in the aftermath of her surgery and has sworn off Jack, but their reconnection seems inevitable. But, alas, no second season.

It is obvious that Iain Glen has given up the ghost and is on a huge wind up but Laura Aikman's just takes the biscuit.

The first Jack Taylor movie not directed by Stuart Orme but the upturn in quality from the previous episode is maintained. It is rather peculiar of me to admit this but I did wonder how they were going to deal with a fingerless Jack!

Kate has returned to the Garda after her operation and she and Jack still seem to be an on/off couple.

Jack and Darragh are hired by a major software company to find out about valuable games data being stolen. The main suspect is a young lady called Skyler who is later found dead and Jack suspects the head of the company whose flirty wife is making a play for Jack.

James Mason the English private investigator from the previous story is putting pressure on Jack to help get the charges against him dropped.

It was nice to see some story strands from the previous story Headstone being carried over and I rather like the teaming up of Jack with the increasingly desperate James. They really seemed to be two sides of the same coin. The always enthusiastic Darragh seems ends up in a bit of bother again, this time his meddling leaves him dangling.

I am still bemused to see Kate and Jack as a couple though. It is a shame it has taken the makers so long to figure out how to make these films finally work.