Jack Taylor

2013
4.1
17 reviews
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Set 2 episodes (3)

1 The Dramatist
3/3/13
Seven months after his mother's stroke, and continuing on his path of sobriety and healthier living, Jack is called on to investigate the death of a female university student, who falls from a roof while dressed in theatre costume. A ring of paper around her wrist contains an apparent suicide note written in her blood, and Gardai assume the death to be drug related.
2 Priest
3/10/13
Jack investigates the death of a priest who has been beheaded, and discovers the cleric abused two boys several years earlier. As more secrets from the church are revealed, Jack drifts back into his old habits, and discovers more of his own demons, along with the horrendous consequences the victims of the priest's earlier abuse are still enduring.
3 Shot Down
3/17/13
When the police make no headway in the shooting death of a woman, Taylor volunteers his services to her grieving family. He believes the woman's 11-year-old daughter saw the killer and may now be in danger. While a feud rages within her community, Taylor has to protect the girl and help her recall the events of her mother's murder.

About this show

Based on the bestselling crime fiction by Ken Bruen. Self-destructive, pigheaded, and over-fond of the bottle, Jack Taylor (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey) is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. In his new trade, Taylor finds evil at every turn: the serial murders of young female factory workers, a vicious vigilante group executing summary justice, and a sadistic nun dubbed "Lucifer" by her former charges. Set against the rugged backdrop of western Ireland, this crime noir series depicts a country in transition, caught between the certainties of the past and the anxieties of a post-bubble future. Those same strains play out in the life of Jack Taylor, a man seeking to reinvent himself in a community with a long memory and an uneasy attitude towards change.

Ratings and reviews

4.1
17 reviews
deborah elliott
April 17, 2020
Just another macho, male dominated, egotistical, "men are great" show. Same old stereotypical John Wayne baloney. I like the star of this program, but wish there were strong women characters to give him a run for his money.
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Eve Karis
September 3, 2015
Wow. Just wow. Nice to see Iain Glen NOT get friend zoned.
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Roger Elizondo
July 3, 2015
Great show, hopefully they never stop making episodes
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