Mayo man's TV show now available on Netflix and Hulu
The series penned by Castlebar man Ray Lawlor is now available to stream on Netflix
A series created by a Mayo man is now available to stream on Netflix and Hulu.
Castlebar writer Ray Lawlor penned the dark comedy . The six-part show aired on RTÉ last year and is set for a second series. It received widespread acclaim during its debut season.
can now be viewed by international audiences after it arrived on streaming platforms Netflix and Hulu this week.
Set in the fictional town of Kilraven, it tells the story of Elvira Clancy. When the newspaper she works for falls on hard times, Elvira gets paid per obituary. But deaths trickle to a halt and work dries up. Elvira discovers that by murdering the residents in her small town, she will not only earn more money but discovers she has an untapped bloodlust.
stars a line-up of renowned Irish actors - Siobhan Cullen ( ), who takes the lead as Elvira Clancy, Michael Smiley ( ) as Elvira’s protective and troubled father Ward Clancy, and Ronan Raftery ( ) as ambitious new crime correspondent Emerson Stafford. It is directed by John Hayes ( ).
Ray told the that his hometown provided some of the inspiration for the show.
“I think half the punters in Mick Byrne's will be thinking, 'Is this me?'" Ray joked. “Set in the fictional Mayo town of Kilraven, this is a fun, darkly twisted drama that proudly allows me to transport some of the wit and characters I encounter every day in my hometown of Castlebar into the living rooms of the Irish people.
"I faced a crucial decision regarding the type of obituary writer my protagonist should be. Should they be a compassionate soul who writes obituaries while providing solace to the terminally ill on their journey to the afterlife? No way. My obituary writer would be a serial killer, someone who, when faced with a lack of work, resorts to taking lives in order to craft her victim’s obituaries, while always making these deaths look like accidents," he added.
