THE WALSH SISTERS - sat 9.15pm bbc 1 - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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New series 6 which is mean to be ace !!

was shown originally in Ireland last year and now bbc have it

Enter The Walsh Sisters, which has been adapted from several of Marian Keyes' beloved novels and introduces us to the dysfunctional but deeply loveable Walsh family.

Featuring five sisters, a devout mother and a bemused father, every family will find something to relate to in the chaos that surrounds them.

Billed as a "comedy about serious things — a pacy, brutally honest and uncompromisingly funny exposé of the realities of being an Irish sister", we meet the five sisters as they’re drifting through adulthood in Dublin and supporting each other as they cope with heartbreak, grief, addiction and parenthood.

And if it's as good as Marian's books, it's going to be a truly outstanding piece of TV.

The six-part series is part based on two of Marian Keyes’ novels, Rachel’s Holiday and Anybody Out There and introduces us to a group of five loveable but chaotic sisters living in Dublin - Anna (Louisa Harland), Rachel (Caroline Menton), Maggie (Stefanie Preissner), Claire (Danielle Galligan) and Helen (Máiréad Tyers) – as they navigate the peaks and troughs of their late 20s and 30s.

It's a sisterhood full of in-jokes, hand-me-down resentments and more than a few old wounds.

But their DNA, history and shared love of power ballads keep the Walsh sisters together in the face of heartbreak, grief, addiction and parenthood.

The cast of The Walsh Sisters includes:
• Louisa Harland (Derry Girls, Renegade Nell) as Anna
• Caroline Menton (Oddity) as Rachel
• Danielle Galligan (Kin, Shadow and Bone)

•	Máiréad Tyers (My Lady Jane, Belfast) as Helen
•	Stefanie Preissner (How to Adult) as Maggie
•	Aidan Quinn (Legends of the Fall) as Jack ‘Daddy’ Walsh
•	Carrie Crowley (Hope Street) as Mammy Walsh
•	Debi Mazar (Younger) as Chaquie
•	Gina Moxley (The Patient Gloria, Here Before) as Josephine 
•	Jay Duffy (Wheel of Time, Northern Lights) as Luke Costello
•	Samuel Anderson (Amandaland (<a class="break-all" href="https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a69662742/jennifer-saunders-amandaland-christmas-special/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a69662742/jennifer-saunders-amandaland-christmas-special/))</a> as Aidan

Me too!

I am genuinely enjoying it. I think Rachel in Cloisters is exactly what I expected - I'm relistening to the audiobook for the millionth time. Although I don't get why Chaqui is American, in a Dublin rehab centre? It would make sense if they still kept the New York story, but without it, it's a bit jarring.

Mammy Walsh is just a disaster though. Shes just a complete cow.

I think the counsellor’s style of speech was odd.

I thought that. It's almost like she's had a stroke or something.

I’m def enjoying still

wasn’t sure of the end

janie ? Did she leave a messsges hinting that aiden had been unfaithful with her

I thought that or some sort of additional needs!

No one?

Was aiden unfaithful?

not in the book , he had a kid from a prior relationship iirrc

so the message Janie left ?

In the book I think Aiden had been engaged to a woman his parents had really liked and he broke it off when he realised he was falling for Anna.
I can't remember if there was a child.

Yes there is a child in the book. Janie is pregnant when Aidan dies. But it’s before he and Anna were exclusive so not unfaithful. I think!

As I recall Aiden had been on and off for years with Janie ,he moved from Boston to new York and they both dated other people ,but hooked up when at home ,he met Anna and decided she was the one and told janie who was also dating somone ,she found out she was pregnant but didn't know if it was the new guys or Aidens, so kept quiet, Aiden and Anna got married and were very happy until the car crash .
Janie got married to the new guy but when she had the baby it became apparent it was Aidens and she had just told him when he had the accident there was no cheating
But the timeliness were longer I think the child was a toddler when Aiden found out.

Yes that seems to ring a bell but was years ago I read the book…

You're right.

Janie and Aiden were childhood sweethearts but they started seeing other people when he moved to NYC.

Then she fell pregnant and didn't know who the father was.She had fallen for her husband, and Aidan had fallen for Anna so she didn't say anything until the kid started to grow up and looked the spitting image of Aidan. He found out a day or two before he died which is why Anna didn't know.

So there was no cheating involved

i don't remember how it plays out exactly in the book, but it's from the 90s so there was no mobiles (i think?)

I wish I could remember properly but I read it back in the 00s

I’ve just finished the series. Yes it’s different to the books and mammy Walsh is just a bitch. But…. I really want a second series

There's definitely plenty scope for another series i agree.

Me too @Codyrhodesisaheel

E4 tonight

What is?

??? Don’t get what you mean

What is on E4 tonight?

She's saying it's EPISODE 4 tonight

Gold star to @purpleme12😂🌟😂

yes episode 4 is tonight

I wondered briefly why it had moved channels too 😄