‘The Iris Affair’ review: Niamh Algar plays a maths genius and puzzle-solver in this convoluted new thriller – but does anyone know what is going on?

If you can tolerate the narrative choppiness of glossy new thriller ‘The Iris Affair’, it’s diverting enough nonsense

Genius and ace puzzle-solver Iris Nixon (Niamh Algar) has to dodge the shady types on her trail in Sky Atlantic’s glossy, silly eight-parter The Iris Affair. Photo: Sky

Whatever happened to good old-fashioned linear storytelling in a drama?

You remember linear storytelling, don’t you? It used to be how most television dramas were constructed. There was a clearly defined beginning, middle and end.

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