Enda McEvoy: Spoiler alert - we already know how this show ends

Who’s going to win the 2024 All-Ireland? Analysing the one before looks like fruitless work. Easier instead to call up last month’s Champion Hurdle on YouTube

Sat, 22 Apr, 2023 - 07:15

Enda McEvoy

GAA journalist with a particular passion for hurling.

In season three of a popular TV show about the tribulations of middle management as seen through the eyes of a harassed New Jersey businessman, the main protagonist acquires a new mistress. She is beautiful, smart and sophisticated. She also, it slowly emerges, has acute psychological and emotional issues.

Soon she is ringing the businessman’s wife and threatening to expose their relationship, upon which he despatches one of his myriad myrmidons to warn her off. The goon produces a gun and informs her that if she doesn’t lay off, his is the last face she’ll ever see. “It won’t be cinematic,” he leers.