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Irish Daily Mirror
06-07-2025
- Irish Daily Mirror
Evil killer Graham Dwyer no longer receiving "love letters" from female fans
Evil killer Graham Dwyer has finally become a turn-off for women, we can reveal. The sadistic murderer no longer receives fan mail from females wanting to have a relationship with him. The shamed 52-year-old ex-architect used to receive scores of letters every year from women living in both Ireland and abroad keen to connect with him. But prison sources say the so-called 'love letters' have now dried up and women for various reasons don't want anything to do with him any more. A prison source said: 'The fan mail for Graham Dwyer has more or less stopped. There are little or no women writing to him anymore – in fact he gets zero fan mail. 'He has served 10 years in jail and is getting older by the day. He has lost his boyish looks and is probably not the attraction he used to be. 'I also think when women sit back and look at what he did to his victim Elaine O'Hara, they might just think to themselves, 'Why would I want anything to do with a fella like him'.' The brutal murder of child care worker Elaine shocked the nation. Married father of two Dwyer had a sadomasochistic relationship with her. The Irish Mirror's Crime Writers Michael O'Toole and Paul Healy are writing a new weekly newsletter called Crime Ireland. Click here to sign up and get it delivered to your inbox every week He had a fantasy of stabbing a woman to death which he later did with Elaine. She vanished in the Dublin Mountains in August 2013 and her skeletal remains were found by a dog walker a year later. Crucial mobile phone data linked Dwyer to the various murder scenes. He is now serving his life sentence. For the latest news and breaking news visit Get all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you. Follow us on Twitter @IrishMirror - the official Irish Mirror Twitter account - real news in real time. We're also on Facebook/irishmirror - your must-see news, features, videos and pictures throughout the day from the Irish Daily Mirror, Irish Sunday Mirror and
The Irish Sun
05-07-2025
- The Irish Sun
‘He gets zero fan mail' – Twisted love letters to evil Graham Dwyer from female fans dry up in ‘blow' to killer's ego
EVIL killer Graham Dwyer no longer receives "love letters" from female fans looking for a relationship with him. The banged-up 52-year-old used to receive scores of letters every year from women in Ireland and abroad, anxious to connect with him. 4 Twisted Graham Dwyer's fan mail has dried up Credit: � 2024 PA Media, All Rights Reserved 4 Elaine O'Hara was last seen in August of 2012 Credit: Copyright remains with handout provider But prison sources say the so-called 'love letters' have now dried up and women, for various reasons, don't want anything to do with the former architect any more. Married dad Her remains were found in the Dublin Mountains in 2013. Dwyer is 'There are little or no women writing to him anymore — in fact, he gets zero fan mail. He has now served ten years in jail and is getting older by the day. 'He has lost his boyish looks and is probably not the attraction that he used to be. 'I also think when women look at what he did to his victim, they might think to themselves, why would I want anything to do with a fella like him? It is a big blow to his inflated ego that women are not queuing up to write to him any more.' Following a harrowing nine-week trial, evil Dwyer, from Foxrock, was convicted by unanimous verdict of stabbing 36-year-old Elaine to death in the Dublin Mountains. The married man, who was filmed knifing sexual partners and admitted having an affair with his vulnerable victim, was hit with the mandatory life sentence. Judge Tony Hunt told the Graham Dwyer gets female visitor ban as only 'official' girlfriends allowed by jail The prosecution case summed up with the assertion he was 'a sadistic and brutal pervert with nothing on his mind other than murder'. Evidence from mobile phones used by Dwyer and his victim were central to the prosecution. EVIDENCE FROM TRIAL One text from the killer stood out in the evidence: 'I want to stick my knife in flesh while I am sexually aroused. Blood turns me on and I'd like to stab a girl to death some time.' Another sick message said: 'My urge to rape, stab or kill is huge. You have to help me control or satisfy it.' On the face of it, married Dwyer was living a normal life in a well-to-do part of south Dublin with his wife and children, working in a successful architects' practice and enjoying a hobby of flying model planes. Meanwhile all along he had been developing a deviant sexual affair after meeting his victim online. State lawyers claimed he toyed with the idea of three potential victims, including Darci Day, a young woman from Maine in the US, who also met Dwyer on the internet and gave evidence via videolink. Childcare worker O'Hara's remains were found in a forest on Killakee Mountain on September 13, 2013. She had been reported missing 13 months earlier. No murder weapon was ever recovered, and due to her badly decomposed remains dental records were used to identify her, and an autopsy could not explain how she died. A new Murderer Behind the Mask, released last month, gives a 4 New CCTV footage showed Dwyer entering O'Hara's home Credit: Amazon Prime The two-part series features startling images of Dwyer and O'Hara separately entering Belarmine Plaza, despite the architect's initial denials that it was him on camera. Detective Sergeant Kevin Duggan told producers the task of trawling through footage was similar to looking for a 'needle in the haystack'. Speaking on the 'At the time of the murder investigation I was given the job to coordinate all CCTV footage relating to the apartment block where she lived. 'It was a fairly mammoth task to review this footage. There was something like over 5,300 hours. It was like looking for the needle in a haystack. WHO WAS ELAINE O HARA ELAINE O'Hara was 36 years old when she was murdered by Graham Dwyer. She was last seen in August 2012 in a park in Shanganagh, south Dublin. Born on St Patrick's Day, March 17, in 1976 in Dublin, Elaine was raised in the capital and educated in Ballybrack and at St Joseph of Cluny secondary school in Killiney. As a teen, she was bullied at school and lost a close friend in a road accident. This led her to spiral into isolation, becoming withdrawn and self-harming on occasion. Two major setbacks in her life were the death of her mother in March 2002 and the death of Prof Clare in October 2007. She was admitted to St Edmundsbury Hospital in Lucan, Dublin - now St Patrick's Hospital - 14 times between 1992 and 2012. Elaine revealed to specialists she had been tormented by a 'play in her head' - an obsession with being restrained - since the age of 12. She was under the care of Professor Anthony Clare for 16 years, who said she did not have psychosis but diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder and depression. Elaine also suffered from asthma and diabetes and was dyslexic. She moved out the family home in Killiney in 2005 to an apartment in Blackrock. Eventually she'd move to Stepaside in 2008. She took night classes in Dun Laoghaire to become a Montessori teacher and worked as a childcare assistant at a school in Ballybrack and part-time at Ken's newsagents in Blackrock. A month before her murder, in July 2012, she had contacted St Edmundsbury herself and got admitted. Her dad Frank and multiple doctors said they thought she'd been "doing better" before she vanished that August. Her family, in a victim impact statement read to court in 2015, described Elaine as a "very intelligent girl who never fully realised her potential due to her psychological difficulties". They added: "She was prescribed a lot of medication and this did have an impact on her ability to be a regular teenager, particularly socially. "She was emotionally immature and very trusting of anyone who showed her kindness. "In later years her medication was reduced, hospital stays became less common and she functioned more effectively. However, she had missed out on those important, formative teenage years. "She had a strong work ethic and loved working with children, as she could relate to them better than to adults. "She was always there to help and assist others, giving lifts, covering shifts at work or collecting many of the items for the Christmas Fair at school. "Elaine adored her niece who was also her goddaughter and loved reading, painting and playing with her. "Elaine's ambition was to be a teacher and she was studying Montessori. "In 2014, we collected a BA in Montessori education which was awarded to her in St Nicholas Montessori school. "She would have been so happy and proud to stand up in her gown and hat to accept that degree herself after overcoming many obstacles to finally get the qualification she longed for, but unfortunately this was not to be." 'We were looking through CCTV footage but we really didn't know what or who we were looking for. 'At one stage while reviewing the CCTV, one particular individual enters the apartment block. 'We hadn't noticed this male enter before. It was someone new to us. 'He piqued our attention a little bit when he seemed a little bit uncomfortable, he seemed to be hiding his face from the camera. 'Also when he went to push the button for the lift he covered his hand with his sleeve of his jumper. 'That alerted us a little bit, that was a bit of a red flag.' In court, Detective Sergeant Duggan also gave evidence that he and his team had viewed hours of CCTV footage from the apartment block at Belarmine Plaza in This was shown to Dwyer's son and former co-workers during proceedings, and the man in the images was later confirmed to be Dwyer. The new documentary follows gardai as they uncover a 'very surprising suspect'. 4 Dwyer's appearance on the footage 'piqued' investigators' attention Credit: Amazon Prime
The Irish Sun
25-06-2025
- The Irish Sun
Explosive ‘red flag' clue in chilling Graham Dwyer CCTV at tragic Elaine O'Hara's flat complex in never-before-seen pics
CHILLING CCTV footage shows sadomasochistic killer Graham Dwyer prowling about the Dublin apartment block where his victim Elaine O'Hara lived. The sicko became one of Ireland's most notorious murderers after his brutal murder of the childcare worker in 2012 sent shockwaves across the country. 6 A new documentary reveals images of sex killer Graham Dwyer in Elaine O'Hara's home Credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire 6 Dwyer murdered childcare worker O'Hara in 2012 Credit: Garda/PA Wire 6 Detective Sergeant Kevin Duggan said trawling through footage was like looking for a 'needle in the haystack' Credit: Amazon Prime And a new Murderer Behind the Mask, released earlier this week, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the major The two-part series features startling images of Dwyer and O'Hara separately entering Belarmine Plaza, despite the architect's initial denials that it was him on camera. Detective Sergeant Kevin Duggan told producers the task of trawling through footage was similar to looking for a 'needle in the haystack'. Speaking on the 'At the time of the murder investigation I was given the job to coordinate all CCTV footage relating to the apartment block where she lived. 'It was a fairly mammoth task to review this footage. There was something like over 5,300 hours. It was like looking for the needle in a haystack. 'We were looking through CCTV footage but we really didn't know what or who we were looking for. 'At one stage while reviewing the CCTV, one particular individual enters the apartment block. 'We hadn't noticed this male enter before. It was someone new to us. 'He piqued our attention a little bit when he seemed a little bit uncomfortable, he seemed to be hiding his face from the camera. Graham Dwyer gets female visitor ban as only 'official' girlfriends allowed by jail 'Also when he went to push the button for the lift he covered his hand with his sleeve of his jumper. 'That alerted us a little bit, that was a bit of a red flag.' In court, Detective Sergeant Duggan also gave evidence that he and his team had viewed hours of CCTV footage from the apartment block at Belarmine Plaza in This was shown to Dwyer's son and former co-workers during proceedings, and the man in the images was later confirmed to be Dwyer. 6 While reviewing the CCTV, investigators saw one person who 'piqued our attention' Credit: Amazon Prime 6 The man in the images was later confirmed to be Dwyer Credit: Amazon Prime The new documentary follows gardai as they uncover a 'very surprising suspect'. Following a harrowing nine-week trial, evil Dwyer, from Foxrock, was convicted by unanimous verdict of stabbing 36-year-old Elaine to death in the Dublin Mountains in August 2012. The married man, who was filmed knifing sexual partners and admitted having an affair with his vulnerable victim, was hit with the mandatory life sentence. 'JUSTICE SERVED' Following the high-profile case which gripped the nation, Elaine's dad Frank O'Hara released a statement in which he paid tribute to his vulnerable girl. He said: 'We are relieved that justice has been served for Elaine but we suffer her loss and miss her greatly. 'We hope that this case will highlight the need for people to be careful when communicating using the internet and social media. 'We would like to thank An Garda Siochana for their sensitive and exemplary investigation. 'We would also like to thank the prosecution team, Garda Family Liaison officers, Victim Support at the court and extended family and friends for their support. 'DIFFICULT AND TRAUMATIC' 'This has been a difficult and traumatic two and a half years for the family and while we respect the role of the media in providing accurate and important information, we ask that you respect our need for privacy as we attempt to move on from this heartbreaking and distressing period.' Judge Tony Hunt told the The judge told the court: 'The question of 'He piqued our attention a little bit when he seemed a little bit uncomfortable, he seemed to be hiding his face from the camera." Detective Sergeant Kevin Duggan The trial of the evil architect was a graphic depiction of bloodlust and unnerving perversion. A huge swathe of evidence involved details of BDSM Such was the shocking nature of some videos, photos, and documents revealed in court that the media self-censored on occasions. The judge also cleared the public galleries. One piece of evidence involved a document found on Dwyer's computer which told a story of a woman being raped, another was a video of Dwyer knifing tragic Elaine on camera, and a series of others revealed unidentified women being stabbed by him during sex. WHO WAS ELAINE O'HARA ELAINE O'Hara was 36 years old when she was murdered by Graham Dwyer. She was last seen in August 2012 in a park in Shanganagh, south Dublin. Born on St Patrick's Day, March 17, in 1976 in Dublin, Elaine was raised in the capital and educated in Ballybrack and at St Joseph of Cluny secondary school in Killiney. As a teen, she was bullied at school and lost a close friend in a road accident. This led her to spiral into isolation, becoming withdrawn and self-harming on occasion. Two major setbacks in her life were the death of her mother in March 2002 and the death of Prof Clare in October 2007. She was admitted to St Edmundsbury Hospital in Lucan, Dublin - now St Patrick's Hospital - 14 times between 1992 and 2012. Elaine revealed to specialists she had been tormented by a 'play in her head' - an obsession with being restrained - since the age of 12. She was under the care of Professor Anthony Clare for 16 years, who said she did not have psychosis but diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder and depression. Elaine also suffered from asthma and diabetes and was dyslexic. She moved out the family home in Killiney in 2005 to an apartment in Blackrock. Eventually she'd move to Stepaside in 2008. She took night classes in Dun Laoghaire to become a Montessori teacher and worked as a childcare assistant at a school in Ballybrack and part-time at Ken's newsagents in Blackrock. A month before her murder, in July 2012, she had contacted St Edmundsbury herself and got admitted. Her dad Frank and multiple doctors said they thought she'd been "doing better" before she vanished that August. Her family, in a victim impact statement read to court in 2015, described Elaine as a "very intelligent girl who never fully realised her potential due to her psychological difficulties". They added: "She was prescribed a lot of medication and this did have an impact on her ability to be a regular teenager, particularly socially. "She was emotionally immature and very trusting of anyone who showed her kindness. "In later years her medication was reduced, hospital stays became less common and she functioned more effectively. However, she had missed out on those important, formative teenage years. "She had a strong work ethic and loved working with children, as she could relate to them better than to adults. "She was always there to help and assist others, giving lifts, covering shifts at work or collecting many of the items for the Christmas Fair at school. "Elaine adored her niece who was also her goddaughter and loved reading, painting and playing with her. "Elaine's ambition was to be a teacher and she was studying Montessori. "In 2014, we collected a BA in Montessori education which was awarded to her in St Nicholas Montessori school. "She would have been so happy and proud to stand up in her gown and hat to accept that degree herself after overcoming many obstacles to finally get the qualification she longed for, but unfortunately this was not to be." Images and links from a phone Dwyer owned - dubbed the 'master' phone - included women being stabbed, strangled or killed, some of which came from a gore website. On the face of it, married Dwyer was living a normal life in a well-to-do part of south Dublin with his wife and children, working in a successful architects' practice and enjoying a hobby of flying model planes. Meanwhile all along he had been developing a deviant sexual affair after meeting his victim online. Dwyer was charged with murdering childcare worker O'Hara, 36, from Stepaside, Co Dublin, on August 22, 2012, hours after she had been discharged from hospital for psychiatric treatment. TROUBLED LIFE Her troubled life was played out in court including her depression, borderline personality disorder, attempted suicides and her interest in bondage and a slave-master relationship. A search of her apartment recovered a printout from a website on Gorean lifestyle based on books in which women are slaves who only exist to please men. Deluded Dwyer had pleaded not guilty ahead of the trial and did not give evidence, confident he would walk from court a free man. The prosecution case summed up with the assertion he was 'a sadistic and brutal pervert with nothing on his mind other than murder'. Evidence from mobile phones used by Dwyer and his victim were central to the prosecution. EVIDENCE FROM TRIAL One text from the killer stood out in the evidence: 'I want to stick my knife in flesh while I am sexually aroused. Blood turns me on and I'd like to stab a girl to death some time.' Another sick message said: 'My urge to rape, stab or kill is huge. You have to help me control or satisfy it.' State lawyers claimed he toyed with the idea of three potential victims, including Darci Day, a young woman from Maine in the US, who also met Dwyer on the internet and gave evidence via videolink. Childcare worker O'Hara's remains were found in a forest on Killakee Mountain on September 13, 2013. She had been reported missing 13 months earlier. No murder weapon was ever recovered, and due to her badly decomposed remains dental records were used to identify her, and an autopsy could not explain how she died. GRIM FIND Only for a series of remarkable coincidences her disappearance may have gone unsolved. A professional dog trainer made the grim discovery when one of her animals disturbed remains in the woods. Three days earlier, 20km from the crime scene, anglers found a bag with handcuffs, clothes and a rope, exposed because of near-drought conditions at the Vartry reservoir in Angler William Fegan, his brother James, and their friend Mark Quinn, later testified how they spotted a bag in the water on September 10, 2013. LOW LAKE The men commented on how low the lake was. William said there would usually be about 20ft of water under the bridge, but on that day it had dropped to a record low of 12 to 18 inches. He said: 'At first, what drew our attention was a shiny metal object and some yellow rope buoyant on the water. We thought it was the ring of a bull's nose.' William managed to fish out handcuffs, cuffs, leg restraints, rusty bondage cuffs, a ball gag, a black blindfold, a hoody and a vest. Confused by the find, Fegan placed the items on the dam wall and went to work. CRUCIAL TO CASE But in a decision that proved crucial to the case, he decided to go back and get them. He said: 'I drive at night. I've plenty of time to think. There was something niggling at me. I thought there was something not right.' He put the objects into a bag, brought them to Roundwood Garda Station and handed them over to Gda James O'Donoghue. This decision was to prove fatal to Graham Dwyer's plan to commit the perfect murder. 'At first, what drew our attention was a shiny metal object and some yellow rope buoyant on the water. We thought it was the ring of a bull's nose.' William Fegan Gda O'Donoghue then went to the bridge and looked down into the water. He recalled: 'It was muddy and there was no visibility into the water.' A day later, O'Hara's skeletal remains were discovered by a dog walker in Kilakee forest, 30km away. The next day — September 14 — while a major forensic search of Kilakee was under way, Gda O'Donoghue, due to 'the nature of what was found', said he went back to Vartry and began to 'search and search'. He went back again on the September 16 and this time the weather conditions had improved. He recalled: 'I could see a shining object in the water. KEY DISCOVERY 'What I saw on that occasion was the stock end and part of a loop of a handcuff. They were partially buried.' He put his arms into the water and began searching by touch. Garda O'Donoghue said: 'While moving my hands through the muck, I felt something buried in the silt. I pulled them up and could identify them as a set of several keys.' He continued his search and found another mask, a knife, an inhaler, the bull ring and a length of rope. He also found Elaine's keys and her Dunnes Stores loyalty card. The garda ran a check on the card and learned it belonged to Elaine, who was a registered missing person, and this eventually resulted in Dwyer's conviction. PHONE DATA LEGAL CHALLENGES Mobile phone data played a huge part in the prosecution case against Dwyer as it helped link the sicko to O'Hara and locations connected with the vicious killing. Dwyer set out to fight the use of this evidence and argued that accessing retained data from phones contravened EU law. His legal team had claimed his rights were violated during the trial because mobile phone evidence used to pinpoint specific places at particular times and dates was unlawfully acquired from what they termed "mass surveillance". In April 2022, the evil murderer won a significant EU court legal challenge against the inclusion of the mobile data in his trial. APPEAL FAILURE The Court of Justice of the EU ruled that law in the union forbids the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data relating to electronic communication for the purpose of combating serious crime. After this, Dwyer moved to try an overturn his murder conviction at the Court of Appeal in Ireland, but that case was dismissed on all grounds in 2023. Dwyer then took his case to the highest court in Ireland - the Supreme Court - which decided in 2024 to rule against his appeal to have his murder conviction quashed after deciding the evidence was admissible. 6 Dwyer failed in his attempt to get his conviction overturned
Irish Daily Mirror
16-06-2025
- Irish Daily Mirror
'Harrowing' documentary on killer Graham Dwyer airs this week
True crime fans are being urged to watch an upcoming documentary on one of the most "harrowing" cases. Murderer Behind the Mask is set to drop on Prime Video on June 21. It will feature the murder of Elaine O'Hara who went missing in the Dublin Mountains back in 2012. Despite initially believing she had taken her own life, a chance discovery a year later led to a chilling murder investigation. Following police officers in Ireland, the force soon found a "very surprising suspect". A synopsis reads: "When Elaine O'Hara goes missing in the Dublin Mountains in 2012, police assume she has taken her own life. But over a year later, a chance discovery of items found in a lake by a group of fishermen, lead to a body of a young women, sparking an incredible murder investigation, and leading to a very surprising suspect. "Graham Dwyer, a successful architect and a happily married father of two, has been leading a double life of twisted kinks and violent fetishes and now the police suspect him of murder." In preview clips, the crime was branded by detectives as the "most grotesque" and "harrowing cases our society has ever witnessed". The series will feature two episodes, each around 45 minutes long. It takes viewers on the journey of the murder investigation, from the moment police were called right through to where Graham Dwyer is now. Elaine was a 36-year-old childcare worker who was said to have been "vulnerable" when she initially went missing in 2012. She was said to have been struggling with her mental health at the time and her disappearance was initially treated as a suicide. But it wasn't until 2013 when items were found by a fisherman in a reservoir, which had set off "alarm bells" for police. In the harrowing documentary, one detective said it had "screamed something sinister had happened." In what has been said to be one of Ireland's most notorious murder cases, murderer Graham Dwyer had been a married family man and a successful businessman. The 53-year-old was charged with Elaine's murder in October 2013, over a month after her remains were found at Killakee wood. He was found guilty of Elaine's murder in 2015, and despite appeals, he remains in prison where it is expected he will have to serve the remainder of his life sentence. The shocking and chilling case is being re-visited over a decade on. Streaming on Prime Video, it will shed a light on how the case unfolded following Elaine's brutal murder and Graham's time in court. Murderer Behind the Mask can be streamed on Prime Video on June 21.
Irish Examiner
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
10 TV highlights for June: Squid Game, Echo Valley, football history
Aistear an Amhráin, RTÉ One, June 3 The history of some of Ireland's best-loved songs is recounted in the second season of this fascinating documentary series. The second instalment has Cork band The Frank and Walters talking about the enduring popularity of their 1992 indie hit, 'After All'. Stick, Apple TV +, June 4 Owen Wilson returns to comedy playing a former champion golfer whose career fell apart after he had a very public meltdown during a tournament. Twenty years later he's living his worst life, after losing his job at a sporting goods store and with his wife having left him. But then he discovers a 17-year-old golf protégé (Peter Dager). Echo Valley, Apple TV +, June 6 Kyle MacLachlan in Echo Valley Irish actors Domhnall Gleeson and Fiona Shaw star in this thriller set in rural Pennsylvania. The story begins with Julianne Moore's horse trainer, Kate Garrett, receiving a knock on the door in the middle of the night from her daughter Claire (Sydney Sweeney) who is covered in blood. Hell For Leather, RTÉ One, June 9 Tracing the evolution of Gaelic football from the 19th century through to the present, the five-part series features contributions from the late Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, and Kerry's Mick O'Dwyer. Fubar, Netflix, June 12 Arnold Schwarzenegger returns for series two of his fun espionage-comedy in which he plays a retired CIA agent who is surprised to discover his daughter (Monica Barbaro) is in the same line of work. Series one was released years before Barbaro became a name to watch with her Oscar-nominated performance in A Complete Unknown. Now she is back to team up with Arnold once again. The Buccaneers, June 18, Apple+ TV Apple does Bridgerton with the return of its period drama (adapted from an unfinished Edith Wharton novel) about five wealthy American women husband hunting in British high society in the 1870s. The cast includes Irish actor Simone Kirby, and Mad Men's Christina Hendricks . Murderer Behind the Mask, Prime Video, June 21 Graham Dwyer. Picture: Collins Courts The murder of Elaine O'Hara by Graham Dwyer is of course well known in Ireland — but now it receives the true crime treatment courtesy of Prime Video. It can only be hoped that the filmmakers will resist tabloid sensationalism. Countdown, Prime Video, June, 25 Conspiracy thriller about an LA cop whose world is turned head-over-heels when a Homeland Security officer is shot dead in front of him. The Bear, Disney+, June 25 Following a meandering third season, the critically-lauded restaurant dramedy returns for a fresh serving of kitchen-based excitement in Chicago. Jeremy Allen White Ayo Edebiri, Oliver Platt and Jamie Lee Curtis head the cast in a show that, though widely acclaimed, is also something of an acquired taste, with a pace slower than treacle flowing uphill. Squid Game, June 27, Netflix Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun in Squid Game. Picture: No Ju-han/Netflix © 2025 After an explosive first season, the second series of this South Korean thriller about a secret deadly contest on a hidden island was hugely underwhelming. Can the show recover its mojo in its final run of episodes? All will be revealed.
