Friday, June 6, 2014

The TV series Moone Boy - fun Irish entertainment

Moone Boy is a funny and sweet Irish themed TV series about growing up. The first two seasons are available on DVD for the no TV crowd like us.

The character who is the Boy in Moone Boy is Martin, the only son of a sign painter and housewife couple in a small Irish town. Martin's older sisters round out the family with their own issues and antics.

Not the sort of child prodigy often found in movies and other series, Martin is a normal boy and his real life problems with school bullies, the trappings of power as a member of the altar boy mafia as well as the onset of puberty are at times hilarious.

His imaginary friend Sean is a blast, down to the smallest details of Martin's imagination. Which include a few seconds of both wondering why Sean all of a sudden sports bright red high heels.  

Set in the late 1980s and the 1990s, you also get to enjoy TV clips from the era on the Moone family TV.

Including such gems as The Hoff (David Hasselhoff) doing his song "Freedom" at the crumbling Berlin Wall.

The short animation sequences in the show are enticingly hilarious.

Another great feature of the series: NO LAUGH TRACK.

For someone easily discombobulated [our big word of the day] by laugh tracks like TheEditor, this is a tremendous bonus. The number of British made shows not watched by TheEditor beyond the first 15 minutes due to the dumbest invention in TV history is astounding.

If CPR on a dead bird is your cuppa, watch Moone Boy if you get a chance.


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