Rebellion netflix season 2

The events in the immediate wake of 1916 give Rebellion writer Colin Teevan a dramatic ending to the five-part RTÉ series, which ended last night.

It's May 12th and the trials of the rebels continue; the execution of an injured James Connolly is unseen – a wise decision by director Aku Louhimies – but still shocking .

The RTÉ drama's leading action man Jimmy (Brian Gleeson) is saved from the firing squad along with Éamon de Valera.

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Jimmy, who has spent much of the series haring through Dublin with Frances (Ruth Bradley), pals up with Michael Collins and has a go at de Valera. We are told by several characters that the mood in Dublin is changing – support for the rebels is rising.

But there's little sense of it.

One of the most unsatisfactory aspects of Rebellion is the wordy pronouncements used to tell the story, that puts stilted dialogue in nearly all of the characters' mouths at some point.

We've been told, too, that Dublin is destroyed but there's little sense of that either. And for an armed and bloody insurrecti

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