The Way We Were review: Sex, jives and Angela Mcnamara
John Creedon on The Way We Were.
As I moved through the Irish school system in the Noughties, my parents were often surprised to learn that what they had lived through was already considered history. Yet here it all was, on-screen this time, during the season two opener of RTÉ’s The Way We Were.
The debut of the archival series’ new season focused on the evolution of Irish attitudes to love. “Our elemental search for a soulmate has never felt more contrived and complicated,” an opening voiceover says as That Ole Devil Called Love rings. “But eight decades of fascinating archive reveals that our human mating instinct has always been tightly controlled.”
