The farm itself is an excellent backdrop for unspoken menace, as a number of recent indie films have shown: there’s always a metaphor to be found in putting a suffering animal out of its misery. It is not the sort of family reunion for which a sentimental ITV special would be made. Fiona meets her brother Michael in secret, and Michael isn’t talking to his father, after he tried to turn him against Cat in the first series. Fiona’s motor neurone disease is no longer a secret, but Paul is struggling with what appear to be money issues, and seems unable to support her as she needs to be supported, finding solace in a weepy stroke of a racehorse’s muzzle. I’m not sure if Dunbar should take it as a compliment that, even though we know what happened at the end of the first series, he remains a shifty presence – still suspicious, still not quite to be trusted. Although he isn’t in prison, neither is he in possession of his medical licence, and he finds himself grafting for food and board on the farm where Fiona’s husband, Paul, works. Now we know that Jim did kill his wife, but with her say-so, it finds a new mystery in his return home after a long absence. Blood spun its plates skilfully the first time around, and looks likely to do it again. There are plenty of shows that have fun with being twisty and turny, but end up as a cheap thrill ride, falling apart when they have to bring it all together. The experience is rarer than you may think. It is immensely satisfying to watch a crime drama knowing you’re in a safe pair of hands. The action flips between the dramatic journey – I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say it doesn’t end with a midnight McFlurry at the nearest drive-thru – and the events leading up to it, any one of which could be the reason for the late-night dash-and-crash. In a neat echo of the first series, we begin with a woman driving through the night, clearly upset, only this time it’s Cat’s sister Fiona at the wheel. And here we are, waiting for the mystery or mysteries to reveal themselves, again.Īnyone wondering if the show’s writer and creator, Sophie Petzal, could wring more out from the family saga need not have worried. By the end, it had wrapped up its story fairly cleanly, but the Hogan family appear to be the unluckiest in all of Ireland. Her suspicions that her father, Jim – played by the master of the “but is he a wrong ’un?” role, Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar – had something to do with what was being presented as an accident did not go down well with her siblings. Blood (Channel 5) told the story of Cat Hogan, a woman returning home from Dublin to Westmeath after the sudden death of her mother. Late in 2018, one of the strongest dramas of recent years crept out, stripped across a single week.
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