A comic tale of murder and portraits of the dead
The Victorians liked to dress up the newly deceased in their Sunday best, arrange them in lifelike poses and take photographs of them. Weird? Yes, but the past is a different country. In this six-part series – part drama, part morbid black comedy – Brock Blennerhasset
(the dependably excellent Michael Smiley, right), a celebrated ‘memorial photographer’ whose skill can ‘bring the dead to life’, is caught up in a series of bizarre murders in Dublin in which photography seems to play a part. Acorn TV, from Monday