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Shameless Confession:

We now have watched every episode of the Irish crime-drama soap opera Red Rock.

I had never heard of Red Rock until someone in this thread told us about it. (This thread is so long that I could not easily find the poster who talked about Red Rock or I would have quoted him. This is a highly useful thread though. Thank you, Madelaine Amee.)

Each episode of Red Rock is really short, with something like 80 episodes a season. I think it ran twice a week in its heyday.

We don’t watch anything until evening so Red Rock fit into our binge schedule for quite a while.

The thing is, it’s not that good. But it has things to remember — like how the Garda always offer suspects tea when they bring them in for questioning. The Garda are always running, running, running to catch their suspects. No guns. Or rarely a gun. Just a run and tackle.

Then there are the two mean women who boss around their opposing families in a generational feud. Of course, a guy from one family gets a woman from the enemy family pregnant.

The best part is we get to learn lots of Irish slang.

I told a friend about it and she and her husband watched all of it. Now, she finds herself referring to her husband as “Da” when she talks to her kids.

I find myself referring to certain people as “eejits.”

I have added “bloody hell” to my repertoire of useful terms. (But. . .come to think of it, maybe I got that one from New Tricks, our most recent binge.)

Red Rock has crime but no gore. The drama of the personal lives of the Garda is a big part of the storyline.

Somehow though when it was canceled in the 3rd season, it left some things hanging. Oh, well. I guess we could just make up our own endings.

Anyway, if you are looking for a rather silly, easy binge, Red Rock could be it. Amazon.

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