{"id":223088,"date":"2021-04-09T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/frank-of-ireland-is-a-live-action-beavis-and-butt-head\/"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:11:25","slug":"frank-of-ireland-is-a-live-action-beavis-and-butt-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/frank-of-ireland-is-a-live-action-beavis-and-butt-head\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Frank of Ireland’ is a live-action ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Frank of Ireland’ is a live-action ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u201cFrank of Ireland,\u201d starring Dublin-born actor brothers Domhnall and Brian Gleeson, is a hit-or-miss affair.<\/p>\n

The six-episode, half-hour comedy series<\/a>, premiering April 16 on Amazon<\/a>, has some funny moments while sometimes veering into a live-action, sophomoric take on dim-bulb pals \u201cBeavis and Butt-Head.\u201d <\/p>\n

Younger brother Brian takes the lead here as 32-year-old man-child Frank Marron, who\u2019s still living at home in suburban Dublin with his randy mother, Mary (Pom Boyd), who\u2019s both critical of, and in sync with, her son\u2019s temperament and sense of humor. They feed off of each other, though neither would readily admit that.<\/p>\n

Frank fancies himself as a singer\/songwriter (he\u2019s working on a \u201cconcept album\u201d with songs titled after every county in Ireland \u2014 but has gotten no further). He still holds a flame for his ex, Aine (Sarah Greene); they broke up six years ago and she claims to have moved on, despite occasionally finding comfort in Frank\u2019s bed.<\/p>\n

His aptly-named best pal\/sidekick, Doofus (Domhnall), works at the local supermarket and worships the ground on which Frank walks, often to his detriment. He\u2019s thisclose<\/em> to a caricature but, on occasion, is insightful about his life and his simpatico relationship with Frank, even when their friendship is tested. (Doofus is Beavis to Frank\u2019s Butt-Head.) Their shared obsession with movies is a motif that runs throughout \u2014 including Harvey Keitel\u2019s raunchy dialogue in \u201cTaxi Driver,\u201d Kevin Costner (in both \u201cDances With Wolves\u201d and \u201cWaterworld\u201d) and an off-kilter homage to \u201cMisery\u201d when Brian is pressed into service caring for his bedridden mother (what could possibly go wrong?)<\/p>\n

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Brian Gleeson as Frank (left) and Domhnall Gleeson as best friend\/sidekick Doofus in \u201cFrank of Ireland.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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You get the feeling, as \u201cFrank of Ireland\u201d progresses that it sometimes tries a little too hard to wring laughs from any number of awkward situations a la \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d (sans the mockumentary backdrop) \u2014 and you wonder why the surrounding characters don\u2019t take more offense to Frank and Doofus\u2019 disastrous social<\/a> miscues and mishaps in the series, which was written by the Gleesons and Michael Moloney.<\/p>\n

At the same time, both Domhall, 37, and Brian, 33, show a distinct flair for comedy when not forcing the issue. They\u2019re no rookies in front of the camera, with years of experience between them, including Domhnall\u2019s two \u201cHarry Potter\u201d and \u201cStar Wars\u201d movies (as Bill Weasley and Gen. Armitage Hux) and his co-starring role opposite Merritt Wever in the seven-episode HBO comedy-thriller series \u201cRun.\u201d Brian\u2019s TV\/film resume, meanwhile, reaches back 15 years (he was memorable as Billy Boys leader Jimmy McCavern on Season 5 of \u201cPeaky Blinders\u201d).<\/p>\n

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Doofus (Domhnall Gleeson) takes a peek at what\u2019s going on in \u201cFrank of Ireland.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Pat Redmond<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The brothers have a comfortable on-screen chemistry, the writing is often sharp and you can believe that Frank and Doofus would be pals within their Looney tunes universe.
\u201cFrank of Ireland,\u201d launching April 15 on the UK\u2019s Channel 4 (it\u2019s a co-production), isn\u2019t for everyone. It\u2019s a pleasant enough diversion and each episode flows into the next smoothly \u2014 so you won\u2019t feel like you\u2019re wasting your time in following the lowbrow antics of two guys you would likely steer clear of in real life.<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#’Frank of Ireland’ is a live-action ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’” \u201cFrank of Ireland,\u201d starring Dublin-born actor brothers Domhnall and Brian Gleeson, is a hit-or-miss affair. The six-episode, half-hour comedy series, premiering April 16 on Amazon, has some funny moments while sometimes veering into a live-action, sophomoric take on dim-bulb pals \u201cBeavis and Butt-Head.\u201d Younger brother Brian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/domhnall-brian-gleeson-frank-of-ireland-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[101399,2758,101467,86,37981,75407,1373],"class_list":["post-223088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-9-21","tag-amazon","tag-brian-gleeson","tag-comedy","tag-domhnall-gleeson","tag-ireland","tag-what-to-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}