Jane Seymour’s latest acting stint at Acorn TV, titled “Harry Wild” has her all over Dublin, Ireland solving murders after she retires from a successful university career. That’s the premise of this Harry Wild. If you’re unfamiliar with this show, no worries because we plan on doing a Harry Wild recap and review just for you on this piece, that way. After you finish reading this, you will grab that remote and might want to check it out.
After all, Jane Seymour is a great actress and brings attention to everything she does. For starters, in this show, as stated earlier, she plays a retired college professor who —reluctantly or not— pivots towards law enforcement. And she does so in a unique way to bring attention to topics of feminism, ageism, and discrimination in the workforce. Now, without any further ado, let’s take a look at this show!
Harry Wild Review
Harry Wild is charmingly wholesome, the sort of murder mystery where people recover surprisingly quickly after seeing forensic evidence and there is always time for corny banter between the odd ensemble of characters. Plenty of similar exchanges occurs between Harry and her new acquaintance, Fergus (played by Rohan Nedd), a man she enlists as her side-kick after he scams her in the very first episode. Furthermore, her son, Charlie (played by Kevin Ryan), the perennially disapproving police detective, provides humorous familial friction to the tale.
By far the finest element of the series is Harry herself, an unashamed woman who leads the type of lifestyle we see many characters enjoying in comparable shows. Harry is strong and capable, makes crass jokes, has never been married, likes hot make-out sessions with younger men, and sips scotch like an expert. She’s a delightfully modern break from a lengthy roster of adult female sleuths.
Kinda Too Serial, Needs More Cowbell
Harry Wild is almost serial, with each chapter having a new mystery for Harry to solve. The ideas are interesting enough, although the show suffers from frequent expositional exchanges between both the antagonists and Harry, where you question why they’re giving her stuff midway through an episode. There are other talks between Harry and her collaborators where she lays out the enigma so clearly that it becomes long-winded and needless.
Where’s The Scare If It’s A Murder Case?
The show has rather a romanticized vision, with scenes occurring in gorgeous, sunny regions of Dublin and Harry’s local spot, a quaint pub named ‘The Hairy Goose’. A handful of the plot aspects are very totally clean as well, like when Harry, her granddaughter Lola (played by Rose O’Neill), and Fergus travel incognito to a luxury boarding school. The sequence involves a clichéd clothes buying sequence and the trio arrives in an over-the-top limousine. Rather than rendering the whole program more light-hearted, silly moments like this contrast with the deeper plotlines. To do this properly there needs to be a delicate balance between gloom and lightness, and this hasn’t been accomplished regularly.
Class Divide?
Another issue is that Harry’s life is incredibly secure and middle-class. We often observe her sitting with a drink of wine in her nicely decorated house and buying expensive items without question. However, this rose-tinted outlook complements the style and makes everyone feel secure and familiar — even when terrible murders are occurring. Also, the wealthy perspective is reduced by the presence of Fergus, whose family is working poor and reside in a more relevant section of the city.
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Harry Wild Episode 1 Recap
Harriet (short for Harriett) is Harry’s nickname. Jane Seymour, also known as Wild, is a booze-addled caustic mouthpiece with little social restraints who is also prone to making improper grammar changes throughout talks. Either you adore her or you long to be free of her presence. In her final lecture before retirement, she is a literature teacher at Trinity College in Dublin. Awestruck students look up to her despite the abuse she dishes out. A farewell party with Harry’s coworkers follows the class, and she is rewarded by having a new professor over for dinner.
The next day, though, reality sets in. The fact that she’s hungover doesn’t help. She has no idea what to do with the rest of her life. Is there anything else you’d like to do than drink and tidy up your yard and attic? That boredom is setting in. In a different part of town, there’s a gruesome scene. There are candles adorning a carpet in a dimly lit room. Whether he’s dead or not is a mystery to us. This is a scene that has been meticulously recreated in a highly detailed model in the background. He gets to his feet, draws his weapon, and delivers a devastating blow to the prone victim.
Harry Meets Fergus
A disillusioned secondary school teacher in Harry’s area tries to pique the interest of his students in the novel Wuthering Heights by assigning it to his class. Fergus Reid (Rohan Nedd), class troublemaker and smart mouth reveal what a miserable job the instructor has. While shopping for food, Harry is robbed by Fergus since Harry’s house is full of wine but lacks food.
Bad Grandma
Officer Charlie (Kevin Ryan) learns of his mother’s injury and offers to care for her while she recovers with his family. It’s not apparent how this decision was made, but it’s plain that no one is thrilled about it. To begin with, Harry makes lots of grandparent faux pas: she smoked in the house, uses her adolescent granddaughter Lola’s childhood pottery project as an ashtray, and asks Lola whether she can get some marijuana. When her vibrator is at home, she tells the family, “I need this to relax.” This information makes her son practically flinch.
A Piqued Interest
Harry discovers Charlie’s case files while prowling all around the house late at night. Leonard Walsh, a homeless man who served time for child abuse, has been identified as the victim. To understand why, Harry thinks we need to go to literature, and she points to a Shakespearian-era vengeance tragedy called Calabras in which an artist kills and kidnaps an actress as the inspiration for the death scene.
When Harry goes home, she determines that the knives and rolling pin she brought with her aren’t enough protection, despite the fact that she would never confess it to her family. In her local pub, she purchases a Taser from an unscrupulous seller. Kayleigh Connor, a young woman who has been missing for several days, is being shown on the pub’s television (Tara Egan-Langley). It occurs to her as she recalls the story of an obscure Elizabethan play that she wonders whether the two cases of homicide and kidnapping are somehow connected.
Go Away!
As Charlie and Orla are having a get-together for his employer Glen Talbot (Paul Tylak) as well as other high-ranking members of the Garda, she interrupts them. To her frustration, Charlie throws her out of the house and rejects her ideas on the matter. The father of the missing woman discovers that Kayleigh had dreams of becoming an actress when Harry pretends to be the Commissioner of the Guard and visits him. She was once a part of a company of amateur actors that had a financial breakdown and disbanded. The production designer Colin Fountain (Jim Roche) is still at the group’s abandoned theater, which Harry discovers when he visits there. And, sure enough, they had big plans for Calabras.
Picking Up The Trail
The enraged Charlie orders his mother to “do old woman stuff” and stay out of his business. He also doesn’t notify Harry that his team has apprehended a suspect who turns out to be innocent. Seeing her assailant on the street, Fergus, Harry shifts her focus to him. He treats his little sister with remarkable kindness and then heads to the cemetery with a bouquet of flowers. Fergus does not expect to be tasered or lectured as he mourns the loss of his grandmother. Because he doesn’t appear to be a criminal, Harry is captivated by him.
Solving the Mystery
Harry employs Fergus to help her crack the mystery, in order to reimburse her for the money she lost. For safety, she has him accompany her to the home of Colin Fountain and wait for Kayleigh, whom she believes to be inside. Kayleigh is shackled to a bed in the upstairs room of the house, which is unlocked and empty. But Colin, who had just left, comes, makes Harry unconscious, and binds her up as well.
For some reason, Colin is unable to comprehend Harry—she is too elderly and too English—to serve as a member of the Garda. In typical villain fashion, he admits to killing the stage manager and making it appear as though he attempted suicide, as well as Leonard Walsh. His approach to her with a battery-powered drill is, however, more serious. Fergus saves the day with Harry’s taser just in time. During the time Charlie and his squad take over, Fergus and Harry leave the scene, and Charlie says she’s going to tutor him—meaning she’ll make him a man. She does it all the time. In the end, what will happen?
Where to Watch Harry Wild?
If you wish to stream Harry Wild and you live in the United States, you can do it from Acorn TV —either as an add-on to your Amazon Prime Video subscription or as a standalone version— or from Amazon Prime Video. The same is true if you live in the United Kingdom or Canada. With this, we arrive at the end of our recap and review of this Jane Seymour show on Otakukart. Thanks for reading our article and please come back for more daily updates on all your favorite series, shows, and movies.
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