I will say right off that it was a little difficult to keep up with them going back and forth between Irish Gaelic and English. The problem wasn't really the 2 languages, the problem was that the Irish accents were sometimes very thick meaning I needed the captions on to be able to understand, especially when multiple people were talking or they were yelling/highly emotional. However, Amazon very kindly included in the captions "Speaks Gaelic" that was right on top of the subtitles the movie put in so the audience who didn't speak Irish Gaelic would know what they were saying. It was extremely annoying to not be able to understand half the movie because Amazon doesn't know how to properly do captions.
Other than the language issues, I really enjoyed the first episode of this 3-part mini-series. They were establishing that there was an element of the ridiculous but it was also dealing with some serious events. The second episode started to veer off course a bit where it went overboard with ridiculous or plain stupid scenes and smashed them right up against serious scenes. The effect was a kind of emotional whiplash that was very unpleasant. The third episode went totally off the rails and I was just rolling my eyes the whole time. I know that American movie makers can often be accused of having an overdeveloped sense of self-importance, but the people who made this movie think even more of how important Ireland is or could be!
I'm sure many people enjoyed this movie and I am glad they did, but I was not one of them. Between the language issues, emotional whiplash, and rolling my eyes so hard at the ending that I think I sprained something, I will pass on ever watching it again.
