Bloodlands: The key moments from thrilling Episode 3
There are more and more questions emerging in the BBC series
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The third episode of Northern Irish crime thriller Bloodlands aired on Sunday night (March 7), with plenty of questions which needed answering after last week s dramatic twist.
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A motive can be assigned to multiple characters we ve come into contact with, from Tom Brannick (James Nesbitt) to Jackie Twomey (Lorcan Cranitch), and even those we haven t met and are assumed dead, such as Tom s wife Emma.
While Nesbitt’s family were largely unaffected due to living in the countryside, his sister and father narrowly dodged a car bomb explosion in the Seventies.
As a child of the Troubles-era, the star has taken a keen interest in the aftermath of those difficult times.
He’s also been a very outspoken champion of reunification and hopes for a “new union of Ireland”.
Nesbitt, who holds both an Irish and British passport, claimed he only began to see himself as Irish after he moved from County Antrim, where he was born, to London.
Bloodlands star James Nesbitt branded the money spent of Brexit a shambolic waste (Image: GETTY / BBC)
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Tonight s top telly includes new drama Smother, starring Dervla Kirwan, the return of Creedon s Atlas of Ireland, Bloodlands, All Creatures Great and Small and the finale of The Great . . .
Pick of the Day
Smother, 9.30pm, RTÉ One
Dervla Kirwan, Niamh Walsh and Seána Kerslake star in this new drama, written by Kate O’Riordan, whose CV includes
Mr Selfridge and
The Bay.
When Val Ahern’s husband Denis is found dead at a foot of a cliff close to their home the morning after a family party, she begins to question the truth behind his relationships with his nearest and dearest in order to find out who might have been responsible for his brutal, shocking death.