The RTÉ continuity announcer’s words that night were like a sneaky little gut punch, delivered when you’re least expecting it: “And that was the last ever episode of Brimstone. Next week at the same time.”
Wait. What? Not the last in the current series we hadn’t yet started calling them seasons but the last one ever. How could this be?
Back in 1998, when
Brimstone made its debut in the US, arriving on RTÉ a few months later, television hadn’t yet become the major cultural force it is today and didn’t receive anything like the saturation media coverage it now commands.