Re: MacGyver 2: Burn Notice

Ken from Chicago wrote:

And then there's Gabrielle Anwar as the ex-girlfriend (tho maybe not quite so ex, since these days every other series has a "couple" who were a couple and might be a couple again), who's ex-IRA (Irish Revolutionary Army, not a tax accountant). Nice accent.


Irish Republican Army, except that that disbanded long, long ago. They mean the PIRA, Provisional IRA, known as the "provos".

Why does American entertainment trivialise Irish terrorism so glibly? Don't you have a war on terror, or something? Did you not get the "terrorism is bad" memo?


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