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The show’s secret weapon is its sound design. You will never hear a gunshot in BRONA the way you expect. Instead, violence is muffled: a slammed car door, the shink of a box cutter in a butcher’s shop, the gurgle of a sink drain after someone has washed their hands too thoroughly. Unlike most crime epics, BRONA isn’t trying to save a city. It’s trying to save one awkward pub quiz night.

By Aoife Walsh

“Brona” has already been renewed for a second season. Showrunner Ní Bhraonáin teases: “Next year, Fergal buys a lawnmower. It does not go well.” brona etv show

The problem? Everyone in Brona already knows who he is. And worse—they remember him as the kid who set fire to the GAA clubhouse after losing the county final. The show’s secret weapon is its sound design

What unfolds is a masterclass in rural paranoia. The town’s matriarch, Maura (a heartbreaking Sharon Horgan), runs the local convenience store and knows every car that passes her window. The teenage drug dealer, Cian (breakout star Daryl McCormack’s younger brother, Séamus), sees Fergal as either a meal ticket or a rival. And then there’s Garda Siobhán Kelly (Ann Skelly), the town’s only honest cop, who has to decide whether to arrest her childhood crush or ask for his help finding a missing local girl. Visually, BRONA is a stunner. Director of Photography Elena Petrescu shoots the Irish countryside the way Kubrick shot The Shining ’s Overlook Hotel: the fields are too green, the fog is too thick, and the silence is actively hostile. One extended sequence follows Fergal walking a country lane for seven minutes with no dialogue—only the sound of gravel, distant sheep, and his own accelerating heartbeat as a tractor follows him just a little too closely. Unlike most crime epics, BRONA isn’t trying to save a city

It is not glamorous. It is not heroic. It is BRONA .