TV that gets Dublin right

Aoife Brennan

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Honestly these are the shows I make everyone watch before they're allowed to have opinions about this city. I'm talking Trinity-campus-wandering, Rathmines-adjacent, 'wait I KNOW that bridge' telly, the kind where you pause it just to scream about the setting. Watched most of these curled up in the café after close, still in my apron, absolutely not okay about any of them.

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Name	Comment	Series	Where it's set	Watch it for
1Normal People	I had to physically sit on my hands watching this, honestly, the Trinity scenes nearly killed me, I SEE that library every single day	Normal People (2020)	Trinity College & Dublin 4	The campus feels exactly like it does on a Tuesday morning, cold and gorgeous and slightly haunted
2Conversations with Friends	Sally Rooney again, I know, I know, but I'm contractually obliged as an English student, it's basically on the syllabus of my personality	Conversations with Friends (2022)	Dublin city centre	All the quiet Dublin flats and poetry readings, very much my aesthetic even if I can't afford the flats
3Bad Sisters	Genuinely cackled on a bus reading subtitles because I had headphones in and absolutely lost it, I'm not okay, so funny and then suddenly devastating	Bad Sisters	Dublin coast, County Dublin	Sharon Horgan writing Irish sisters like she's been eavesdropping on my family
4Dublin Murders	Watched this alone one night after a closing shift and deeply regretted it, the woods near the city genuinely spooked me for days	Dublin Murders	Dublin and surrounding woodland	Properly moody crime drama if you like your telly with a side of existential dread