‘Obituary’ review: Season 2 gets off to shaky start – but an unexpected twist saves this dark comedy about a small-town serial killer

RTÉ’s dark comedy Obituary gets back to winning ways – eventually

Siobhán Cullen (left) as obituary writer-turned-murderer Elvira and Máiréad Tyer as Vivienne, her demanding new editor, in Season 2 of ‘Obituary’. Photo: RTÉ

The most pleasant surprise of Irish television in 2023 was Obituary (RTÉ One, Tuesdays, all episodes on RTÉ Player), a black comedy about a serial murderer bumping people off in the proverbial sleepy Irish town.

It came as a welcome relief from the flood of sub- Love/Hate gangland guff, derivative Euro pudding detective dramas and soapy, dysfunctional-family shlock like Smother that have defined RTÉ’s drama output for way too ma

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