Iain Glen convinces as damaged Jack Taylor, an alcoholic former cop who now works as a Galway gumshoe. As one sultry client says near the start, “They say you’re good, because you’ve nothing else in lifeâ€
Mike Newell’s adaptation, apart from a bland performance from Jeremy Irvine as the endlessly striving, rather unsympathetic Pip, is perfectly acceptable Sunday-night entertainment.
I recently stepped into an elevator where a woman was practically orgasmic recounting to her friends things Bryan Cranston’s character Walter White did and said during a recent episode of Breaking Bad.