BLOOD

Directors: Lisa Mulcahy and Hannah Quinn

Its pitch black family saga taking as its starting point a young woman’s return from Dublin to her home town in West Meath after her mother’s sudden death, Blood is really about old secrets, older betrayals and the lies families tell each other. So far, so straight-forward. But what marks Blood out is the way in which the 28-year-old Petzal plays both with the show’s tone and the genre’s conventions.