WHAT'S WORTH WATCHING - Death & Nightingales

SERIES PREMIERE Sunday, May 16, 10/9c, Starz

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HOW MUCH CAN happen in a 24-hour period? This three-part Irish drama—a 2018 adaptation of Eugene McCabe’s devastating novel—endeavors to find out as forces collide on Beth Winters’ 23rd birthday to form a perfect storm. Disaster seems all but inevitable.

It’s 1885 in the north of Ireland, and Beth Winters (The Nevers’ Ann Skelly, above) is preparing to leave both the family farm and her Protestant landowner stepfather, Billy (an appropriately terrifying Matthew Rhys, above right), forever. Her grave and poetic inner monologue gives voice to her unhappiness. Her plan: to run away with her lover, Irish independence radical Liam Ward (a charming Jamie Dornan, above left).