A great cast helps Martin McDonagh’s bitter tale to sparkle with sensitivity and grim humour, while Thelma delivers an engaging comic adventure featuring no-nonsense seniors

“I just don’t like you no more.” With these words, Brendan Gleeson’s Colm sets in train an increasingly acrimonious series of events in Martin McDonagh’s witty, bitter yarn, set on an island off the Irish coast in the early 1920s. The recipient is his erstwhile best friend Pádraic (Colin Farrell). An easygoing man, Pádraic is generally acknowledged as a bit dull but a despairing Colm’s attempts to shun him turn surprisingly bloody. The civil war simmering away on the mainland is barely registered by the insular islanders, whose thwarted ambitions and dark secrets are given the weight of Greek tragedy by McDonagh. A superb cast also features Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon.
Saturday 22 February, 9.15pm, Channel 4