Blood

Cat Hogan returns to West Meath upon her mother's sudden death - she has an accident at home and died (or was it an accident?). Blood is about old secrets, older betrayals, mind games and the lies family tell each other.

Blood (2018-2020) is an Irish television family drama created by Sophie Petzal for Virgin Media One. Cat Hogan (Carolina Main) returns to West Meath after her mother Mary Hogan's sudden death, and the question of whether that death was an accident or something darker hangs over every scene. Her father Jim Hogan (Adrian Dunbar) sits at the centre of a household where old secrets and older betrayals keep resurfacing, while Dez Breen (Sean Duggan), Michael Hogan (Diarmuid Noyes) and the Crowley and Mooney families circle the same buried history. The engine of the show is a steady accumulation of half-truths, shifting alliances and quiet manipulations, with each episode peeling back another layer of what relatives have been hiding from one another. Told across two seasons of six episodes each, it is a serialized mystery in which the drama grows from kitchen-table confrontations, funerals and rural gossip rather than action. The tone is brooding, claustrophobic and emotionally raw, with a melancholic Irish landscape reflecting the characters' isolation. Fans of Broadchurch, Ozark and Twin Peaks will find the same slow-burn dread and tangled family loyalties at its core.

Audiences found Blood a mixed, dark family mystery whose secrets and performances divide opinion.

• Broadchurchfamily secrets, rural dread, slow burn mystery drama
• Ozarkfamily drama with buried betrayals and mind games
• Twin Peakssmall town secrets and tangled family loyalties

Created by

Sophie Petzal

Release Date

2018-10-08

Episode runtime

46 min

Rating

7.1 / 10 (51)

What is Blood about?

A woman returns to her rural Irish hometown after her mother's sudden death and uncovers old family secrets and betrayals.

What is Blood like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Blood as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as dense.

Is Blood violent?

Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Blood as mild.

What did critics think of Blood?

Audiences found Blood a mixed, dark family mystery whose secrets and performances divide opinion.

Which shows are like Blood?

Shows with a similar feel include Broadchurch, Ozark, and Twin Peaks.

How long is Blood?

Blood: 2 seasons, 12 episodes.

Is Blood still running?

No, Blood has ended.

Where can I watch Blood?

In United States, Blood streams on Hoopla, AcornTV Amazon Channel, Spectrum On Demand, Acorn TV Apple TV channel.