5.6 /10 1 Votes
40% Rotten Tomatoes Written by Colin Teevan Country of origin Ireland First episode date 3 January 2016 Director Aku Louhimies | 7.1/10 IMDb Genre Historical fiction Directed by Aku Louhimies Original language(s) English, Irish Network RTÉ One | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Niamh Cusack
Brian Gleeson
Charlie Murphy
Sarah Greene
Ruth Bradley
Gus McDonagh
Michelle Fairley Cast Ruth Bradley, Brian Gleeson, Michelle Fairley, Ian McElhinney, Brian McCardie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebellion is a 2016 television miniseries produced by Irish broadcaster RTÉ, dramatising the events surrounding the 1916 Easter Rising.
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- Background
- Description
- International broadcast
- Reception
- References
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Background
The series was directed by Finnish director Aku Louhimies and written by Colin Teevan, with executive producers Catherine Magee, Clare Alan, Colin Teevan.
RTÉ secured €400,000 in funding from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland in 2014. In May 2015, RTÉ confirmed it would produce a drama series commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising; the show was filmed during summer 2015 in Dublin. In December 2015, RTÉ Television confirmed the series would premiere early January on Irish television. The series, which cost €6 million, is the most expensive drama series produced by the public broadcaster. RTÉ and Zodiac Media, the production company that made Rebellion, are set to produce a sequel series, titled Rebellion: Two States, set during the War of Independence.
Description
RTÉ's five-part television mini-series depicts fictional characters in Dublin during the 1916 Rising. The commemorative drama begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, social stability is eroded, and Irish nationalism comes to the fore. The tumultuous events that follow are seen through the eyes of a group of friends from Dublin, Belfast, and London as they play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland's independence.
International broadcast
The series premièred on SundanceTV in the US, on April 24, 2016 and on YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Service), on June 1, 2016. Sundance has combined episodes into pairs and titled them: "To Arms" S1E1+S1E2, "Under Siege" S1E3+S1E4, and "The Reckoning" S1E5.
The series is available on Netflix worldwide, except in Ireland and Finland.
Reception
Following its first broadcast, episode 1 held a strong audience of 619,000. 41% of the available audience tuned in to RTÉ One to watch the opening episode of the five-part series, with an additional 45,000 people catching it on RTÉ One +1 and more than 9,000 people viewing it on the RTÉ Player.
The Irish Times gave the first episode a favourable review. The Irish Mirror claimed that the series was "destined to court controversy". Dr. Shane Kenna, a historian and lecturer at TCD, criticised the series for its "poor ahistorical script with no educational benefit". The series was slated on social media, with many viewers criticising its historical inaccuracies. Pat Stacey, writing in the Irish Independent, wrote negatively about the dialogue, stating: "the characters didn’t so much converse as chuck out egregiously stilted slabs of text which hung in the air for a moment, before crashing to the floor", concluding: "It’s not historical accuracy the Rebellion has to worry about; it's plain, old-fashioned bad writing, allied with dismally flat direction."