PURE MULE is set in rural Ireland, in the same terrain as Eugene O’Brien’s play and later feature film Eden. It’s a midlands market town, unnamed, but utterly familiar.Each of the six episodes of the original series (which first aired in 2005) focuses in on one particular character from Friday evening to Monday morning. By times sexy, violent, comic and elegiac, the series expresses the frailty and longing that is at the heart of each booze-fueled weekend. The drama is rich in language, loss and the edgy exchanges that can turn a night out into one of magic or misery.
