Episode 1: Dinner for One

Aidan, an actor, lives alone and is preparing a solo birthday meal for one but is missing Galangal, a vital ingredient for his duck dish. Aidan Is distracted on his quest by a voice over job and various encounters with his neighbours including Shiela who wants a French lesson and Chinese girl Ashley who smells death in the corridor and asks him to read her film script. In return he finally obtains some galangal and cooks and eats his meal. He has a vision of himself dead in his armchair.

Episode 1: Dinner for One (360)

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Episode 2: Pentacle

Shiela dressed like Miss Haversham goes out to her corporate gig leaving surf loving Turlough to mind their infant son. He attempts a self tape and tries to masturbate but falls asleep. Shiela returns late at night and wants to do a tarot reading. As the reading develops the cracks and mistrust in their relationship emerge. Turlough’s mother has Alzheimers and Shiela is anxious he makes sure she leaves him money as she doesn’t trust that Turlough will be able to provide. They have never felt so far apart. Their little son sleeps in his cot.

Episode 3: Font

Frances Flood, holds forth in his very up market apartment about all things concerning Irish Architecture and how he Francis was never given the credit he deserved. It’s like he is giving some kind of lecture to an invisible audience. He drinks glasses of Champagne and rants against a rival Jerome Fitzsimons who castrated him and made him a eunuch in the harem of Irish architecture. Interrupted by neighbour Turlough, Frances quizzes him about his missing eye and loses all reason causing Turlough to leave. Frances is left alone.

Episode 4: Lans

Lans, a pharmacy student from Sierra Leone, wakes to play his trumpet and composes a hip hop track ‘tears in my porridge’ about a girl who just broke up with him. His neighbour, Olive, visits him and talks of Voodoo in his country and her dead son but she gets too personal when mentioning to Lans that his parents have never visited him. He asks her to leave and tries to call his parents but they don’t answer. He is clearly feeling lonely and let down by them. In a dream, Olive urges him to get mad and express his anger. He does so and himself and Olive sit on his bed playing a trumpet.

Episode 5: Mespil in the Dark

Aidan Gillen stars as Anthony Patterson. He packs away his belongings in boxes including the only novel he ever wrote which he is sending to his son. He has a list of jobs to complete. He is methodical. He is calm, clinical, going about the business of a man preparing to leave the world. A man who seems relieved to have made the decision. But the most painful thing will be a last zoom call with his son.

Episode 6: Coup de Théâtre

Olive, a sex worker of the mystical kind, wears a Sumerian mask to dance for a client. She is upset as her son will not accept who she is. She visits her neighbour Bill, an actor, who rails against what has become of his profession. Together they must find a way to let go of the anger they are feeling. They do this by touch, screaming and laughing their way into some kind of peace. Then they drink Kefir milk.