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Thursday 21 August 2014

Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014)

The third dose of TV Irish is based on the third book in Peter Temple's series. Jack's still helping Harry win big on the horses and apprenticing in carpentry in his spare time (aka reflecting on the current case), but the seedy side of his day job never really goes away. In Dead Point there's drugs, murder, blackmail and a red leather-bound book that the wrong hands are just itching to get a hold of. The balance between realism and movie drama is tipped a little more toward the latter but it’s exciting so is easy to forgive. I like that reminders of the past can catch even fictional characters unawares.

3½ business ends out of 5

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