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  • Acorn TV
  • Sep 18, 2022
  • Acorn TV
  • Sep 18, 2022

Summary The crime thriller created by Chris Brandon follows Northern Irish officer Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt) as he investigates a suspected suicide case that includes a clue to an assassin connected to deaths during the Troubles. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 21 Feb 2021 and in the US on Acorn TV on 15 Mar 2021]

Created By: Chris Brandon

  • Acorn TV
  • Sep 18, 2022
  • Acorn TV
  • Sep 18, 2022
Bloodlands
Season 2
Season Premiere: Sep 18, 2022
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary The crime thriller created by Chris Brandon follows Northern Irish officer Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt) as he investigates a suspected suicide case that includes a clue to an assassin connected to deaths during the Troubles. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 21 Feb 2021 and in the US on Acorn TV on 15 Mar 2021]

Created By: Chris Brandon

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 18, 2022 • 56 m
Episode #2.1
A local accountant's murder leads DCI Tom Brannick and DS Niamh McGovern into a web of intrigue surrounding the victim's widow, Olivia Foyle.
Episode 2 • Sep 25, 2022 • 57 m
Episode #2.2
A raid on an abandoned house uncovers the hiding place of Robert Dardis. Tom is forced to use drastic measures to find the whereabouts of the gold.
Episode 3 • Oct 2, 2022 • 56 m
Episode #2.3
Tom and Olivia work together outside the official police investigation as their search for the gold forges a most unsavoury alliance.
Episode 4 • Oct 9, 2022 • 56 m
Episode #2.4
With the origins of the gold confirmed, an American gangster arrives in Dunfolan to take back what is his. Birdy makes a shocking discovery.
Episode 5 • Oct 16, 2022 • 57 m
Episode #2.5
Tom is forced to deal with the killer in order to stay in the hunt for the gold, but a revelation from Izzy threatens to knock him off course.
Episode 6 • Oct 23, 2022 • 56 m
Episode #2.6
Tom falters on the tightrope between his investigation and illicit pursuit of the gun and the gold, as it all threatens to come tumbling down.

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70
Feb 6, 2023
Season 2 of Bloodlands layers even more intrigue onto what’s generally a straightforward, unfussy detective drama, with James Nesbitt’s raw anger leading the way.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 19, 2022
The plot is sufficiently good to bring me back for episode two, but dramas can feel like a bit of a slog when the central character is unlikeable and potentially everyone is lying. We can’t trust anything that Brannick says. We can’t trust anything that the widow (Victoria Smurfit) says. And I’m not sure if we’re meant to trust Det Chief Supt Jackie Twomey (Lorcan Cranitch) or not.
By Anita Singh FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 19, 2022
While there is enough intrigue and weirdness to keep watching, there is still a lot of James Nesbitt glowering and frowning, then frowning and glowering, and looking angry even when he's just, say, driving a car. ... Yet my issue with it hasn't changed it is unrelentingly dour with few likeable characters.
By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 19, 2022
There’s nothing subtle about some of the acting in Bloodlands, especially Nesbitt’s lingering, over-emphatic glances, more starey than glowering. But then the script asks him to do a lot of clunky signalling.
By Gerard Gilbert FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 19, 2022
The show’s real identity as a genre piece about an in-too-deep maverick cop is revealed: the conveniently placed clues and particularly the cast’s reliance on pained looks and sly side-eyes becomes hilariously noticeable.
By Jack Seale FULL REVIEW

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