Overview

• The Steven Knight–created miniseries premiered on Netflix on September 25 and logged 35.7 million hours in three days, ranking third globally per Unilad reporting.
• Rotten Tomatoes shows a strong critics’ score of 89% alongside a lower 62% audience rating.
• A sharply negative Spectator column critiques the series for stereotyping and inauthentic depictions of Irish revolutionaries, even as it acknowledges lavish production design.
• Netflix has not announced a renewal, and the series was introduced as a miniseries, leaving its future uncertain.
• Knight downplays the idea of a shared on-screen universe with his other shows, with comments about crossovers presented as lighthearted rather than plans.