Tall Tales and Murders Season 1 aired on One at 10.40pm with Aidan Gillen as Grinner and Ella Lily Hyland as Bridget. The listing puts a new Irish crime caper into a late-evening slot and gives viewers the two names driving its opening stretch.
Chris Addison directed the episode, which centers on Grinner waking from a coma and revealing himself as a gangster with a hoard of buried treasure. That setup gives the show a simple commercial proposition: one episode, one criminal secret, one nurse already looking for leverage.
Bridget and Grinner
Ella Lily Hyland plays Bridget, a kindly nurse with a secret drug habit and a taste for folk horror stories. She is also willing to dispatch suffering patients, which turns the character from background caregiver into the sort of figure that can move a plot instead of merely reacting to one.
Grinner gives her an opening when he reveals the treasure. Bridget spies an opportunity there, and that single beat tells viewers where the series wants its first pressure point to sit: between survival, greed, and whatever line she is ready to cross next.
Chris Addison’s 10.40pm slot
The 10.40pm placement matters because it is the kind of slot used for a show that depends on tone as much as premise. Tall Tales and Murders Season 1 is being sold as a breezy Irish crime caper with a twisty edge and a hint of danger, not as a straight procedural or a neat thriller.
Viewers of One get the main question immediately: whether the comic surface holds once Bridget starts acting on that opportunity and Grinner’s buried treasure becomes more than a strange recovery-room detail. The episode’s structure is already built around that collision, and the fact that only 1 opening installment is in view means the pilot has to do the work of both introduction and escalation.
Bridget in Tall Tales and Murders
That is where the episode earns its place on the schedule. A nurse with a secret habit, a gangster out of a coma, and a treasure map made from bad intentions is a cleaner hook than most crime series get at launch, and it comes with enough friction to justify the late hour.
What exactly happens after Bridget spots an opportunity when Grinner reveals his buried treasure is the part the listing does not answer, and that is the point: Tall Tales and Murders Season 1 is built to make the first turn count before it explains the rest.
