Without first clearing it with my physician, I watched all six episodes in one sitting. The creator, Gary Tieche, piles in a plethora of ingredients, and they all cook up together, sort of. But if you're not prepared to cut him some slack and put some effort into snatching up the tasty bits, you might be advised to pass on "Clean Sweep", and select some more conventional cuisine. And if you're planning a life of crime in the Emerald Isle, don't count on the Garda to let so many interesting bits slip through their fingers. Why didn't they get the prints off that book already? And the cops discovered they had a brothel in town full of illegal immigrants - only by accident? "Case solved!" - uh-uh, not convincingly. They oughta promote that gorgeous (and smart) Detective Uba (Jeanne Nicole Ni Aisle), not Sgt. Mohan (Barry Ward).
For an international audience, the Irish accents would benefit from higher quality sound recording. Shelley (Charlene McKenna) cleans compulsively (yes, you'll find out why), and her husband turns out to have a kitchen-glove fetish. A marriage made in Freud-land? You won't solve crimes in your colleague's bed, detective, you'll just give yourself the guilts, and those guilts will prevent you from... The more he learns, the less he wants to see.
Each relationship (family or otherwise) brings its own sub-plot (here there are too many). Niall (Aidan McCann) is a great kid, but marked out for an early death. For Caitlin (Katelyn Rose Downey) puberty arrives too soon, and too embarrassingly. And Derek (Rhys Mannion) finds that love rejected hurts a lot more than falling off a skateboard.
Charlie Lynch (Adam Fergus) used to be a nasty piece of work, but now he's soul-saving for Jesus. If anyone wants to tell you that it's God's Plan for you to volunteer to spend the rest of your life in jail, it's OK to bring a gun with you. Although I say shooting's too good for 'em.
"Clean Sweep" is far from perfect, but parts of it are excellent.
For an international audience, the Irish accents would benefit from higher quality sound recording. Shelley (Charlene McKenna) cleans compulsively (yes, you'll find out why), and her husband turns out to have a kitchen-glove fetish. A marriage made in Freud-land? You won't solve crimes in your colleague's bed, detective, you'll just give yourself the guilts, and those guilts will prevent you from... The more he learns, the less he wants to see.
Each relationship (family or otherwise) brings its own sub-plot (here there are too many). Niall (Aidan McCann) is a great kid, but marked out for an early death. For Caitlin (Katelyn Rose Downey) puberty arrives too soon, and too embarrassingly. And Derek (Rhys Mannion) finds that love rejected hurts a lot more than falling off a skateboard.
Charlie Lynch (Adam Fergus) used to be a nasty piece of work, but now he's soul-saving for Jesus. If anyone wants to tell you that it's God's Plan for you to volunteer to spend the rest of your life in jail, it's OK to bring a gun with you. Although I say shooting's too good for 'em.
"Clean Sweep" is far from perfect, but parts of it are excellent.