Dublin Murders

There are a lot of different elements to Dublin Murders, from the mystical to issues of identity.

Identity is explored within (crazy) families, between twins and their siblings, and with regard to survivors as a result of traumatic experience. Cassie and Rob share troubled childhoods and a lifelong search for acceptance that spearheads the theme. With these people never escape grief, and the detectives find in each other kindred souls and understanding they've craved but never found with anyone else. All in all worth it seeing.

I really do not understand the negative reviews here. I may be a little biased as I am a Tana French fan and find her books some of the best crime novels around at the moment. However, I am not a Sarah Phelps fan after the mess she made of the Javier Falcon novels when she adapted those for TV. In this case, though, she seems to be on to something. The books are slow burners with a psychological tinge that eats into the dialogue and sets up the characters and their relationships. The relationship between Rob and Cassie is rendered pretty well. They have also included a couple of things that are not in the book that seem to work well. Frank stalking Cassie is a logical way to link to the next instalment and a great way to introduce a wonderful character. Well, two episodes in and it all looks good to me. For those that are looking for a standard police thriller kind of thing, don't bother. It was not written that way and the TV show looks pretty close to the book, so far. For those that like twisted, heart-wrenching, psychological drama, stay with it. I can already see that this is going to stay pretty close to what the author intended.

This series started out really strong with great character development and an intriguing and unique story line.

That plot remains interesting throughout, however, about half way through the series a second story line is introduced that runs concurrently. I found it very silly and unnecessary with the need to completely suspend belief. The links between the two stories was weak.

It wasn't a bad show, just some poor decision making to combine two seperate book storyline's into one series that took some of the shine off its appeal.

Overall I would score it 6.5 out of 10. It would have been a 7 had there been more focus..

To the person who reviewed this and didn't even watch it. You base your review on the plot description, you people are ruining IMBd for everyone else. Please don't review titles if you have not even watched it. Good start to this show.

I just finished binge watching this. It starts off slow as the story unravels its characters. It seems like a pretty simple whodunnit, but its not. The characters are flawed and have dark pasts which interweave beautifully with the main plot and just when you think you have it all worked out.... another bread crumb appears and like Hansel and Gretel you cant help yourself... You follow. I wont give anything away, but i hope they do a season 2... Special appearance by one of my favourite Game of Thrones characters and the acting is superb