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FX’s ‘Say Nothing’ Is a Moving, Empathetic Assessment of the Troubles: TV Review
FX's adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe's 'Say Nothing' is a moving, empathetic assessment of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Created by Joshua Zetumer (“Patriots Day”), the nine-episode “Say Nothing” is largely faithful to Keefe’s reporting, which used the disappearance and murder of single mother Jean McConville (Judith Roddy) to examine the Troubles’ human cost in Northern Ireland, a territory once bitterly contested between members of the Irish Republican Army and English authorities allied with the area’s Protestant majority. But because McConville is absent from the story and her 10 children were still young at the time, the active drivers of the narrative and de facto protagonists of “Say Nothing” are the IRA fighters themselves, particularly real-life figures Brendan Hughes (Anthony Boyle) and Dolours Price (Lola Petticrew). This exercise in collective memory offers Zetumer and his writers a convenient framing device, as older versions of Dolours (Maxine Peake) and Brendan (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) narrate their younger selves’ exploits with hindsight and a heavy twinge of regret.
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