{"id":106767,"date":"2025-10-07T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106767\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:17:10","slug":"faithless-series-two-review-baz-ashmawys-accomplished-comedy-makes-a-riotous-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106767\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Faithless\u2019 series two review: Baz Ashmawy\u2019s accomplished comedy makes a riotous return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018Faithless\u2019 (Virgin Media One) 4\/5\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Baz Ashmawy as Sam is left holding the baby in the second season of his successful comedy \u2018Faithless\u2019. Photo: Virgin Media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FaithlessS2_LS_5539.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Baz Ashmawy as Sam is left holding the baby in the second season of his successful comedy \u2018Faithless\u2019. Photo: Virgin Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the end, it\u2019s not really the hope that kills you, it\u2019s the hype. That squeaking sound heard all over Ireland last week was the air escaping from the hype balloon after episode one of The Walsh Sisters aired on RT\u00c9 One.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">While it\u2019s not entirely fair to judge a series on its first instalment (as my colleague Ann-Marie Hourihane pointed out in her review last week), the dominant opinion, not least among fans of Marian Keyes\u2019s popular source novels, seems to be that RT\u00c9 has dropped the ball on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Faithless\u2019 (Virgin Media One) 4\/5 Baz Ashmawy as Sam is left holding the baby in the second season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,1181,34851],"class_list":{"0":"post-106767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-rte","13":"tag-virgin-media-television"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}