Critic Reviews

It is a hilarious, warm, brutal melange that works because it has heart without sentimentality and authenticity without strain.

There was palpable affection for its characters born of lived experience, and a consistent effort to portray their lives and worldviews honestly, however ludicrous the scrapes in which they found themselves. ... Keeping the whole vehicle on track was Gilgun, a fine actor who, whether waddling away from an angry farmer or pining for his absent mother, personified the wild humour, unglued energy and profound pathos of the character and the show itself.

No matter how contrived, these schemes turn out to be a hoot, Ocean’s Eleven crossed with Shameless, never lacking a snappy quip.