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Daily Mail
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
'Bizarre but brilliant' thriller from creators of Killing Eve made free to stream on BBC iPlayer - but it won't be available for long
A 'bizarre but brilliant' thriller has been made free to stream on BBC iPlayer, but won't be available for long. Based on Daniel Cole's popular novel of the same name, Ragdoll is a fast-paced six-part thriller produced by the same team behind Killing Eve. After first airing in 2021, the drama has recently been added to BBC iPlayer and is available for fans to watch. Henry Lloyd-Hughes plays DS Rose, with British-Brazilian actress Thalissa Teixeira as his friend and colleague DI Emily Baxter, as well as Lucy Hale as DCI Lake Edmunds. The series follows the three detectives as they investigate a serial killer, dubbed Ragdoll, who murdered six people and stitched parts of their bodies together to make a grotesque Frankenstein-like monster. However, those hoping to delve into the thriller don't have long as it's only on the site for five months. It's also airing weekly on Mondays on BBC One. Viewers seem to be split over the series, which scores 92% on the Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes, but 33% on the Popcornmeter. Watchers have left their verdicts online over the years and according to Metro one said: 'So far it's brilliant, love the settings, characters and actors, hope it continues being brilliant.' While on Google Reviews someone penned: 'We've just watched the series and I'm still not sure if it was terrible or really good? Loads of dead end bits or cock-ups? Bizarre but, we still watched it.' One fan wrote: 'Great show binge watched it yesterday. Couldn't stop watching, had to find out how it ended.' 'Loved loved loved it! Book was better but enjoyed the tv series,' another said. While one viewer penned: 'Started watching this today and I'm addicted hopefully they will come out another season it's so good.' Viewers seem to be split over the series, which scores 92% on the Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes, but 33% on the Popcornmeter Someone else wasn't so impressed and said: 'Just started watching it. It's totally out there and unbelievable. 'Feel quite compelled to keep watching for the time being, not sure I'll keep it up though. Exhausted trying to keep up!' Another chimed in: 'Much of the dialogue is mumbled and difficult to follow and the flashbacks are irritating Even my dog stopped watching it and so did I after one episode.'
BreakingNews.ie
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Jodie Comer says being led by Danny Boyle in 28 Years Later was a ‘proper dream'
Jodie Comer has said being led by director Danny Boyle on the set of 28 Years Later was a 'proper dream'. Comer, who is best known for playing the antagonist Villanelle in the hit BBC series Killing Eve, was speaking at the 28 Years Later world premiere in Leicester Square on Wednesday evening. Advertisement 28 Years Later is set in the same world as the 2002 apocalyptic horror 28 Days Later, which saw Cillian Murphy play a bicycle courier who awakes from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society. The new instalment follows on almost three decades since the virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, where some have found a way to exist amid the infected despite an enforced quarantine. When one of the group leaves the gated island they are residing on for a mission to the mainland, they discover secrets and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. Comer features in the film alongside Ralph Fiennes and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Advertisement (left to right) Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alfie Williams, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes and Danny Boyle attended the 28 Years Later world premiere at the Odeon Luxe, Leicester Square (Ian West/PA) Comer said on Wednesday: 'I was honoured when I got this script through. 'And you know, with the opportunity to sit down with Danny, who's a filmmaker who I've admired for a very long time, and to be kind of led by him and be on one of his sets is a proper dream.' She added that Boyle leads a 'calm, playful, fun' set. 28 Years Later is now screening in Irish cinemas. Advertisement
Time Out
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Jodie Comer: ‘Movies? I'm not an adrenaline junkie – I love a cry'
She may be starring in a new horror movie but you won't catch Jodie Comer queuing to see too many of this year's other scarefests. 'My whole life, I've been like: 'Yeah, I'll watch a horror film!' and then I just look at the corner of the TV screen,' says the 28 Years Later actress. 'I'm not really into it.' Danny Boyle's much-anticipated return to the rabid, post-apocalyptic world he last visited with 2002 classic 28 Days Later sees Comer playing a waning woman who's holed up with her family on a coastal island, as infected roam mainland Britain. It's another memorable performance in a career packed with them. Surprisingly, it's the Liverpudlian actress's first bona fide genre movie. She's been a major presence on our stages and screens for long enough to feel like a veteran. Since her 2010s TV work on a range of telly shows, culminating in Killing Eve and coronavirus drama Help, the 32-year-old has broken through in a big way – and on the big screen and the West End stage, too. She was the best thing in Ridley Scott's period blockbuster The Last Duel, and has won awards and praise for her one-woman theatre turn as Tessa, Prima Facie 's working-class Liverpudlian defence barrister. Next year, she revisits the character for a UK tour of the sexual assault drama. In person, she's smiley and down-to-earth, even with a small team of stylists buzzing around making imperceptible tweaks to get-up. She takes her work super-seriously, but seems to take herself a lot less so. Time Out caught up with her to chat about working with Danny Boyle, fan encounters and whether she plans to direct one day. You must have been nine or 10 when 28 Days Later came out. What's been your relationship with the film? A friend had the DVD, which helped, but I definitely didn't watch it when it first came out. I remember being very aware of the camera work and being struck by the levity, humanity and emotion. When Brendan Gleeson becomes infected and he's telling his daughter to stay away... it was so bold and multifaceted. To hear that Danny [Boyle] wanted to meet me for this role, I just thought, wow. Especially having never really done a genre like this before. What a filmmaker to explore that with. Are you a zombie purist? No (laughs). I'm not a horror person. I'm not an adrenaline junkie when I go to the cinema. Which film has freaked you out the most? The Sixth Sense really freaked me out as a kid. And The Exorcist. But also the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Like, that's enough for me (laughs). The tunnel sequence in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory feels scarring too. (In fierce agreement) Yeah! Even The NeverEnding Story had elements of that. It affects you in a different way when you're young. So what gets you out to the cinema? I love a cry – I love to be taken in an emotional way, and I usually find that with straight drama. And I love a comedy. I thought Better Man was amazing. I would never not go and see a horror, but it's definitely not my first choice. Do you have a favourite London cinema? I really like the Everyman in Hampstead. Do I order food to my sofa? No, I stick to the classic popcorn. Keep it simple. Your character, Isla, has an unusual introduction in the film. We're not quite sure if she's infected with Rage virus or she's just really pissed off with her husband. Yeah, there's a ferociousness to her rage – it feels dangerous. She's unwell, she's been isolated and I think she knows that people have given up on her on some level, and her son is the only person who hasn't. That scene in the bedroom was one of the first I had to do. Danny is great, he loves to let scenes run. Do you think cinema is afraid of female rage in a way that it isn't with male rage? Perhaps. I can only relate to that with my own relationship with my own rage, which goes to quite an emotional place very quickly. I don't want to speak for all women, but I do think generally we feel uncomfortable expressing ourselves in that way. [We don't] feel comfortable standing in it without feeling like we have to diminish it. But with this role and Prima Facie, there's been avenues for me to explore it. I admire Jessie Buckley so much – the way she's able to harness and express rage, wow, it's so powerful. Tell me about opening the script and reading that opening scene with the kids watching Teletubbies. Yeah, it's so disarming, isn't it? It's a perfect reintroduction to the world we left in 28 Days, and it's something that we all connect to in some way from our childhoods. I feel like everyone could be dressed as Teletubbies for Halloween this year. Do you like to keep props from movies you work on? I definitely kept something from this, but I don't think I can say what it was [for spoiler reasons]. Anything from Killing Eve? On Killing Eve, it'd be so heavily associated with that character that you'd be like, 'I don't want to wear this in the street.' And you just end up with a cupboard full of stuff you don't use. I'll keep little pieces of jewellery and I've got a beautiful picture from Bikeriders... I kind of love keeping things like that, as opposed to clothing and that kind of stuff. The movie is set in the present day but technology stopped 28 years earlier. What would you miss most if the clock stopped now? I think what I'd miss is the live music, the theatre, the movies, the culture. That would feel like a huge absence. Do you have a favourite gig venue in London? (Thinking) I feel like I've been to Brixton Academy a lot. And Alexandra Palace. I went to see Yussef Dayes at the Royal Albert Hall. That's a beautiful venue. I like small venues. I went to see an amazing artist called Lynda Dawn recently at the Deaf Institute in Manchester. It's so intimate, lots of red curtains. I can't remember the last time I went to an arena. I'm already thinking about how long it's gonna take me to get home – which probably says a lot about my age. Prima Facie has been a big part of your life, but you're not playing Tessa in the movie. How do you avoid feeling proprietorial about the role? It existed before me is how I'll simply answer that. I wasn't the first to explore Tessa and she lives on in many different ways. It means a lot to me and when the opportunity came up to tour it, that resonated with me. I felt like I had more to give, and more to explore. And it's amazing that Suzie's (Miller, the playwright) work is travelling the way that it is. Were you interested in exploring the role on screen? It's Cynthia's (Erivo) role. I'm so happy to explore it in the theatre. That feels like where I'm meant to be. Do you have filmmaking ambitions? I can see the workload that it demands (laughs). Maybe way down the line my brain will open up and work in that way, and I'll feel inspired in that way, but at the minute I want something to make me feel something and stretch me in some way. I think it's healthy to be nervous about something you're undertaking. You have a famously passionate fan base. What are those interactions like for you? I've had some really lovely interactions with fans, especially when I think about doing Prima and meeting people outside the theatre. It's always lovely to hear that people have connected to you and your work in some way. That doesn't happen all the time. And Killing Eve?
Irish Post
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Post
Kate Phillips, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Seán McGinley join Brendan Gleeson in The Weir
A STRING of top acting talent has been announced among the cast for a West End revival of Conor McPherson's The Weir. Seán McGinley, Kate Phillips and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor will all feature in the play, which also stars the previously announced Brendan Gleeson, who will make his West End debut in the production this September. The award-winning actor, who has starred in the likes of The Banshees of Inisherin and Paddington 2, will lead the revival of McPherson's 1997 play, which runs at the 3Olympia Theatre in Dublin before making its way to the Harold Pinter theatre in London. Brendan Gleeson will make his West End debut in The Weir 'Conor McPherson's The Weir is one of the rarest plays around,' Gleeson said of the role. 'The last time I appeared on stage was ten years ago, at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, where I started my career. 'I can't wait to be back there, and then to play in the West End for the first time, at the beautiful Pinter Theatre – and to work with Conor on his profoundly moving, inspiring and ultimately hopeful play.' The full cast includes Brendan Gleeson, Owen McDonnell, Seán McGinley, Kate Phillips and Tom Vaughan-Lawlot The full cast has now been announced for the new production, which has been written, and directed for the first time, by McPherson. Owen McDonnell, of Bad Sisters and Killing Eve fame, will star as Brendan, with McGinley, playing Jim, Phillips as Valerie and Vaughan-Lawlor, who first shot to fame as Nigel 'Nidge' Delaney in the RTÉ One series Love/Hate, as Finbar. Running at the 3Olympia Theatre from August 8 to September 6, The Weir transfers to London's West End from September 12 to December 6. Tickets for the West End run are on sale now via
Wales Online
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Jodie Comer says being led by Danny Boyle in 28 Years Later was a ‘proper dream'
Jodie Comer says being led by Danny Boyle in 28 Years Later was a 'proper dream' Comer, who is best known for playing the antagonist Villanelle in the hit BBC series Killing Eve, was speaking at the 28 Years Later world premiere Jodie Comer attends the "28 Years Later" World Premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on June 18, 2025 in London (Image: 2025 Getty Images ) Jodie Comer has said being led by director Danny Boyle on the set of 28 Years Later was a "proper dream". Comer, who is best known for playing the antagonist Villanelle in the hit BBC series Killing Eve, was speaking at the 28 Years Later world premiere in Leicester Square on Wednesday evening. 28 Years Later is set in the same world as the 2002 apocalyptic horror 28 Days Later, which saw Cillian Murphy play a bicycle courier who awakes from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society. The new instalment follows on almost three decades since the virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, where some have found a way to exist amid the infected despite an enforced quarantine. When one of the group leaves the gated island they are residing on for a mission to the mainland, they discover secrets and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. Article continues below Comer features in the film alongside Ralph Fiennes and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Comer said on Wednesday: "I was honoured when I got this script through. "And you know, with the opportunity to sit down with Danny, who's a filmmaker who I've admired for a very long time, and to be kind of led by him and be on one of his sets is a proper dream." Article continues below She added that Boyle leads a "calm, playful, fun" set. 28 Years Later will be screened in cinemas from Friday.
