{"id":187880,"date":"2025-12-12T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187880\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:01:10","slug":"irish-blood-review-alicia-silverstones-weird-adventure-couldnt-be-less-convincing-if-it-featured-a-cast-of-leprechauns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187880\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Irish Blood\u2019 review: Alicia Silverstone\u2019s weird adventure couldn\u2019t be less convincing if it featured a cast of leprechauns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It\u2019s difficult to tell if it\u2019s supposed to be a comedy, a drama, a comedy-drama, a thriller or a comedy-thriller\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alicia Silverstone looks desperately sad as Fiona Fox (maybe she read the script) in the often extremely daft mystery drama \u2018Irish Blood\u2019. Photo: Acorn TV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/falicia silverstone.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Alicia Silverstone looks desperately sad as Fiona Fox (maybe she read the script) in the often extremely daft mystery drama \u2018Irish Blood\u2019. Photo: Acorn TV<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The international popularity of Ireland as a filming location for movies and TV series has been fantastic for local technicians and actors at an especially difficult time for their industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Now if only all this welcome activity didn\u2019t have to result in drivel like Irish Blood (Sky Witness, 9pm, Sunday, December 14), a Canadian-Irish six-parter filmed primarily in Dublin and Wicklow, and starring Alicia Silverstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s difficult to tell if it\u2019s supposed to be a comedy, a drama, a comedy-drama, a thriller or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,9617],"class_list":["post-187880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}