Some of us have got so used to punchy, “heart-pounding” television, that when something “nice and simple and genuinely uplifting comes along”, we might approach it with “suspicion”, wondering when it’s going to get “complicated”, said Chris Wasser in the Irish Independent . But this six-part adaptation of Rónán Hession’s charming novel “tells a refreshingly tidy tale”.

Not everything works out for the “affable Irish protagonists”, and the show is peppered with “tragedies, big and small”. On the whole, though, “it’s about ordinary, everyday people, with ordinary, everyday problems”, and the “funny little things we do to keep the soul ticking over”.

The series is an “ode to introversion”, said Sarah Dempster in The Guardian . “And yet”, Leonard (the “sublimely idiosyncratic” Alex Lawth

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