If you're looking for a show that will bore you to tears, look elsewhere. Tall Tales and Murder, the TV adaptation of Caimh McDonnell's first Dublin Trilogy novel, is many things - disgruntled gangsters, a dysfunctional care home, buried treasure, bedroom cuckoldry, a Paul Mescal lookalike contest - but boring? Apparently not. Written for TV by Stuart Carolan (the man behind Love/Hate) and co-created by Chris Addison (The Thick of It, Veep), this Bonnie and Clyde-style caper through gangland Ireland comes with serious prestige. It also features Aidan Gillen, because of course it does.

Billed as a wild ride, the series hints at Channel 4's offbeat hit The End of the F***ing World, BBC Scotland's thriller Guilt, and even a less elaborate Da Vinci Code - if the Da Vinci Code had more church-adjacent ill-gotten gains and fewer albino monks. It's a mile-a-minute affair, pummeling viewers with a multitude of characters, themes, plots, moods, and twists. Think of it as reading a choose-your-own-adventure book from cover to cover rather than skipping to the relevant pages: you're gorging on an all-you-can-eat buffet of drama, comedy, and action, but you might not feel particularly satiated by any of it.

Entertaining? Sure, in the same way whiling away your day on TikTok is entertaining - watching weird little vignettes while being hit with a continuous drip-feed of dopamine. But standout television? The Guardian's reviewer remains unsure. The show moves so fast and throws so much at you that confusion is a likely side effect, even if boredom never enters the equation. So buckle up for the Irish version of The Wire - if The Wire were a hyperactive, genre-mashing fever dream with a Paul Mescal lookalike contest. Just don't expect to feel full afterward.