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Say Nothing Series-Premiere Recap: The Whole Sordid Story
Dolours Price and her friends inherit their parents’ armed struggle when they join the IRA, but that doesn’t stop them from finding moments of joy.
Though her ideals change, Dolours brings her no-nonsense wit to the armed struggle; from the jump, the Price sisters are uninterested in being “one of the Cumann girls, breastfeeding the men all night.” They want to be in it with the boys, who get to throw Molotov cocktails and take down telephone poles even when they don’t really know which lines lead to Catholic phones and which to the barracks. The wounds left by this kind of responsibility will later harden into resentment for Dolours, and lead her to tell Mackers point blank that though she’d been taught since she was a kid that to “join the IRA was the noblest thing you could do,” it turned out to be “all lies.” While something like Derry Girls aimed to find the humor in civilian life amidst the conflict and a film like Hunger took a more somber approach to its realities, Say Nothing falls somewhere in between: it blends character-driven drama with political thriller while still managing to be pretty funny; “good craic,” as Brendan or Dolours might put it.
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