# Red Rock (2015)

> A Dublin Garda station struggles to police a town where two local families' long-dormant feud has erupted again.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/55068

## Facts

- Seasons: 3
- Episodes: 53
- Episode runtime: 22 min
- Status: Canceled
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Peter McKenna
- Network: TV3
- Cast: Adam Weafer, Jane McGrath, India Mullen, Sean Mahon, Richard Flood, Sean Mahon, Patrick Ryan, Pandora McCormick
- TMDB rating: 7.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4320944/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: gritty, brooding, character driven, tense

## Synopsis

Red Rock is an Irish serialized crime drama set in a busy Dublin Garda station and the surrounding community, where the powerful Hennessy dynasty and the petty criminal Kiely clan have a long dormant feud brutally reignited. The officers of the station must keep order while their own lives become entangled with the families they police. Each episode mixes standalone crime of the week cases with ongoing serial arcs, building a simmering atmosphere of dread on streets where everybody knows everybody. Its tone is gritty, brooding and character driven, with tense confrontations, stakeouts and station briefings grounding the drama. The emotional engine is the tension between professional duty and loyalty to local families, leaving characters morally compromised and watchful. A contemporary western sensibility, shaped by frontier style justice and rural feud dread, gives the series its distinctive edge. Viewers who enjoy grounded small community crime stories, rivalries that refuse to die, and lawmen caught between badge and blood will find its slow burn tension rewarding across its three seasons and 53 episodes.

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