Chris O'Dowd

Chris O'Dowd: I don't know how prepared I'm to be a dad

Chris O'Dowd is in town with his long-time friend and co-writer, Nick Vincent Murphy, to promote their first Moone Boy book.

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If you love twee telly, you'll be crying into your knitted hanky tonight as the sentimental comedy slides further into sweetness in this series finale. Little Martin Moone and imaginary friend Sean (Chris O'Dowd) are in their matching suits and are getting ready for Fidelma's wedding. The bride is heavily pregnant; the wedding dress ruined by a slip of the Coco Pops, and Martin's in trouble. Can the happy couple get up the aisle before the baby appears? Gentle comedy's all very well, but a few proper laughs wouldn't go amiss.

All too soon, the time has come to bid farewell to David Rawle and Chris O'Dowd as young Martin Moone and his imaginary friend Sean.

We've reached the end of their season-two adventures but hold back the tears - there's a third series of O'Dowd's semi-autobiographical comedy tales already in the pipeline. So just go with the flow as Fidelma, Dessie and their imminent bairn head down the aisle to holy matrimony on St Patrick's Day. No room for any unplanned surprises there, then.

Radio Times review

The wedding/pregnancy storyline comes to a head in a riotous series finale. Nervy bride/mum-to-be Fidelma is sounding off at her inept dad, while young Martin senses a distinct cooling-off from his free-spirit girlfriend Majella. It's a tense time, then, and it only takes a spilt bowl of Coco Pops for disaster to ensue.

Anyhoo, there's a bounty of small comic riches from Chris O'Dowd's hand-picked ensemble (Mark Doherty has come into his own as Father Linehan), and the fact that it's St Patrick's Day has majestic significance for one extended gag.

The best kind of farce, ie it's funny.

Money's too tight to mention in the Moone household. Which means Martin (David Rawle) has to get a job if he's ever going to own a Sega Mega Drive, 'the single greatest thing my little eyes have ever witnessed.' So he heads to the golf club, where Chris O'Dowd's charming comedy drives us into the heart of a green-eyed rivalry between Martin's dad Liam (Peter McDonald) and his nemesis, the devious local bank manager, which stretches back decades. Cue flashbacks with very tight shorts.

Radio Times review

The funniest visit yet to where eccentricity isn't just welcomed but actually celebrated. It's summer 1990 and, while Martin and his best (strangest) pal Padraic build a raft for some Huckleberry Finn-ish japes, Martin's sisters are both having size issues. Mother Moone is tiptoeing around Sinead's weight gain, and Fidelma is fired from Bible readings in church for being unmarried and pregnant.

From a priestly Mexican stand-off to a bargain-basement Enya video, Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent Murphy's crackpot sitcom fires on all of its numerous cylinders. Joy, bottled.