Faisal Abbas 
Like many productions from outside, the Irish series “Say Nothing” reached the Disney Plus platform, without almost any promotion. It is understood that the political series, the circle of its events in Ireland during the disturbances of the seventies of the last century (although the struggle for that island and its tense relationship with England dates back to more than eight centuries), is not a production directed to satisfying the masses, but “no less” is worth watching, analyzing and discussing, because it contains many aspects and dimensions.
As expected, the series received very divided reviews, especially among the British media. Many asked about the sympathy of his view of the two sister heroes, Dolores and Marianan Price (they participated directly in bloody attacks, even in London). Others saw that the image drawn by the historical leader of the political movement of Shane Vin, Jerry Adams, as well as the Irish Republican Army, is unfair or biased. All these political and other assessments are valid and perhaps relevant, but what cannot be discussed is the narrative strength, tension, suspense, and psychological depth, and the performance of the team of this remarkable series.
Everything starts in Belfast in 1972, when a group of Irish -Irish Republican Army men kidnapped Jane McCaconville (Godth Rudi), a single mother, from the heart of an apartment in Davis Falatis, a area of monochrome buildings, in front of the eyes of her ten desperate children. The woman was accused of being experienced in the service of the English authorities, and the condemnation of the work of the authorities of the English enemy will not be only one of the issues that the Joshua Zaytomer series will address. Before the “turmoil”, the Irish Republican army followed the policy of killing informants within its ranks. Since the beginning of the conflict, the term laboratory has also been used to refer to civilians suspected of providing information about the paramilitary organizations of the security forces. Other paramilitary groups affiliated with the Irish Republic and the pro -murderer have carried out similar killings. Because she was newly widowed and has ten children, McCacelville’s killing sparked many debates. Her body was not found until 2003.
The heroine of this group story is Dolores Price (Hazel Dub in her youth, and Maxine Beck in her youth, both of whom perform a wonderful work), an attractive figure for her courage, but also for her deep contradictions. She was one of the first women to participate in an activity in the Irish Republican army, and she spent eight years in prison (she and her sister entered a long hunger strike in protest), then she married the actor Stephen Raya (as long as the marriage has two decades and had two children), and she opposed the peace negotiations led by Jerry Adams, and she was one of the main witnesses in the so -called “Belfast Project” A initiative for the oral history of Boston University brought together, between 2000 and 2006, 25 revealing certificates from the Irish Republican Army fighters and members of the paramilitary groups that were raised by secrecy and were available to the public only after the death of the participants.
Dots and Mar were – as the two sisters were calling each other – belonging to a family of Irish Republican army activists (their father also spent nearly a decade in prison, and always proud that he had never reported his colleagues), and started their activities within the peaceful Catholic movements, but the violations practiced by Protestants, under the protection of the police and political and economic forces, pushed them to approach More -related practices. Dolus was initially appreciated to join a elite university in Dublin because of her talent in visual arts, but she ended up a leader in the Irish Republican Army alongside Jerry Adams (Josh Venan in his youth, and Michael Colgman later) and Brendan Hughes (Anthony Boyle), known as “darkness”.
“Do not say anything”, based on a survey of the title itself published in 2018 by American journalist Patrick Raden Kaif tracks the lives of different members in the Irish Republican Army for four decades – a study of hatred, guilt, collusion, obligatory obedience, violence of the eye of the eye (from stones to the Molotov bottles and then to booby -trapped cars, and from kidnappings to kidnappings to Torture, condemnation and executions in cold blood). The series has a rare feature of work in an intimate framework (family dynamics, chats in bars) and across species (the scenes of the movement well and built with pure skill and tension).
It is not the first time (and it will not be the last) that cinema and television will address the Irish conflict (“Michael Collins”, by Nil Jordan; and “Creation Agenda”, Ken Lothe; and “Pleal Sunday”, by Paul Greengrase; and “Belfast”, by Kenneth Brana, and other films other). But “do not say anything” is not just another contribution. It is a dangerous, deep and closely relevant series with a geographically far from its original alarm, calling things its names. For this reason exactly, it can be annoying and confusing to more than one person. On the technical level, without exaggeration, it is one of the best series 2024.
