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Blood Series Two
Blood Series Two “Having been under suspicion of
  murdering his wife but not formally
  charged, a family man returns
  home from a year away to discover
  his eldest daughter is ill; she is also
  suspected of murder, so has lightning
  really struck twice or is there another
  explanation in Channel 5’s gripping
  psychological thriller, the hit Irish
  drama Blood...”

AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE (Ingrid Craigie: Striking Out; The Dead) in the hugely successful first series of the Irish drama Blood, Jim Hogan (Adrian Dunbar: Broken; Line of Duty) was upset when his younger daughter Cat (Carolina Main: Unforgotten; Temple) suspected him of being somehow involved.

Channel 5 has now aired the second series, in which the family are still struggling to come to terms with events. After a year away, Jim is distraught to find that his loyal eldest daughter Fiona (Gráinne Keenan: Black Mirror; The Foreigner) has been diagnosed with the same devastating condition, Motor Neurone Disease, as her mother.

“Blood Series Two
is a compulsive and
intriguing psychological
thriller with enough
blind alleys to keep you
guessing; and a fine
cast of actors
give life to believable
characters...”
Fiona's husband Paul Crowley (Ian Lloyd Anderson: Love/Hate; Herself) has put a strain on their marriage with his drinking and anger management issues, constantly breaking promises he makes to his wife to improve. He also has a secret he keeps from Fiona and his mother Marjorie (Bernadette McKenna).

Their children, Rose (Ruby Dunn) and Joseph (James Heffernan), have to leave their private school and Paul is horrified to discover that Fiona has agreed to allow the children's Godparents, Gillian (Fiona Bell) and Tom Mooney (Denis Conway) to pay the fees so that the children can stay on. They have also offered a temporary home to Jim.

Gillian and Tom own stables with a thoroughbred stallion, Lunar Breeze, they intend to put to stud, and their son Owen (Desmond Eastwood) uses one of the barns to run a business with his friend Kian (Darragh O'Tool). Jim and Paul discover one night that Kian is dealing drugs, but Tom does not want to hear about it. He is also unaware that Kian is plotting to steal Lunar Breeze.

Paul goes missing and nobody seems to know where he is, but he could be involved with criminal activity. Fiona manages to narrowly escape from her car after it plunges into the canal.

Once again Detective Dez Breen (Seán Duggan: Normal People; Clean Break) is trying to sift through the family's troubled past to unlock the current mysteries. Fiona was planning a trip away, but with whom? There is a dead body to deal with, but who has blood on their hands? Jim is devastated, but he could well find himself in the frame once more.

Blood Series Two is a compulsive and intriguing psychological thriller with enough blind alleys to keep you guessing; a fine cast of actors give life to believable characters.

Blood Series Two also features: Diarmuid Noyes as Michael Hogan; Mark O'Regan as Frank; Kwasi Boyce as Driver; Ciarán Hemeryck as Gang Member 1; Sean Gormley as Shane; and Wesley Bergin as Gang Member 2.

Composer is Ray Harman; Director of Photography is Richard Kendrick; Produced by Ingrid Goodman; Written by award-winning writer Sophie Petzal (The Last Kingdom; Riviera); and Directed by Laura Way.

* Following its run on Channel 5, the psychological thriller Blood Series Two is released along with Blood Series One and Two Box Sets on DVD and Digital in the UK by Acorn Media International on 11 May 2020.

"Blood Series Two is a compulsive and intriguing psychological thriller with enough blind alleys to keep you guessing; a fine cast of actors give life to believable characters" — **** Maggie Woods, MotorBar

"Handsome and hook-rich thriller… a decent supply of twists, shocks and cliff-hangers" — The Times

"Dark, addictive and unmissable crime drama" — The Guardian

"Too good… full of twists and turns" — The Irish Sun
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