Irish actress Ruth Kearney's breakthrough is a simple twist of Flaked

Irish actress Ruth Kearney has made her breakthrough in a dark new Netflix comedy, writes Ed Power

THE humour comes dripping slow in new Netflix comedy Flaked. The languid 10-part series stars Arrested Development’s Will Arnett as a mid-life layabout in bohemian Los Angeles. Chip is selfish, insincere and self- obsessed and the jokes mostly spring from the gulf between the character’s flaws and his idea of himself as an upstanding example to others. You’ll laugh when you feel you should be crying.

“It isn’t really a comedy,” says Dublin actress Ruth Kearney, who plays Chip’s potential love interest London . “There are good little comic moments. Overall, the sensibility is darker. It felt grounded in reality. It wasn’t a difficult tone to get right. It was more a case of worrying ‘Is it going to be hard for people if they are expecting one thing and get something else?’”