History Series / DeadStill

In Victorian Dublin Brock Blennerhasset, played by Michael Smiley is a “memorial photographer”; his profession is a relatively new one given how new photography was at the time, and many people think it’s weird as hell. Basically, he poses dead people, with their eyes open, to sit for a portrait before they’re buried. Very quickly Blennerhasset, on the insistence of his niece Nancy (played by Eileen O’Higgins), takes on assistant Conall Molloy, played by Kerr Logan. This is timely as Dublin Metropolitan Police detective Frederick Regan (Aidan O’Hare) is called to a murder scene where the victim is posed like a subject of one of Blennerhasset’s portraits.

Dead Still is a six-part Irish-Canadian television drama series, which premiered on May 18, 2020 on Acorn TV and May 15, 2020 Citytv. The series is a co-production between Ireland's Deadpan Pictures and Canada's Shaftesbury Films.

* TheNondescript: The killer is someone Nacny knew when she was younger but when she meets them again as an adult she does not remember having met them before. She says later when he asks why she doid not rememeber him: "you are unremarkable."
* SerialKiller: The storylines are episodic, but there is a serial storyline throughout the mini-series of someone killing people and the victims are posed like the subject of one of Blennerhasset’s portraits.

* AncientConspiracy: The killer is being employed by a secret society that has their hands in a lot of different conspiracies. Blennerhasset says they named themselves (The Hellfire Club") after a "myth society" from a century ago, and then it's hinted that they are the society from a century ago.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the episode "Camera Obscura" Molloy is invited to photograph spirits at a séance. The medium seems to actually conjure the dead as the spirit knows things that could not be known by a phoney psychic. But, the characters all start to hallucinate spectral things because they are drugged.

* SerialKiller: The stories are episodic, but there is a serial storyline throughout the mini-series of someone killing people and the victims are posed like the subject of one of Blennerhasset’s portraits.
* SpookySeance: In the episode "Camera Obscura" Molloy is invited to photograph spirits at a séance. The characters are made to sit around the table and hold hands with a "spirit queen" medium. The medium seems to actually conjure the dead as the spirit knows things that could not be known by a phoney psychic. But, the characters all start to hallucinate spectral things because they are drugged.

* SpookySeance: In the episode "Camera Obscura" Molloy is invited to photograph spirits at a séance. The characters are made to sit around the table and hold hands with each other and a "spirit queen" medium. The medium seems to actually conjure the dead as the spirit knows things that could not be known by a phoney psychic. But, the characters all start to hallucinate spectral things because they are drugged.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the episode "Camera Obscura" Molloy is invited to photograph spirits at a séance. The medium seems to actually conjure the dead as the spirit knows things that could not be known by a phoney psychic. But, the characters all start to hallucinate because they are drugged.

* SpookySeance: In the episode "Camera Obscura" Molloy is invited to photograph spirits at a séance. The characters are made to sit around the table and hold hands with each other and a "spirit queen" medium. The medium seems to actually conjure the dead as the spirit knows things that could not be known by a phoney psychic.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the episode "Camera Obscura" Molloy is invited to photograph spirits at a séance. The medium seems to actually conjure spirits as the spirit knows things that could not be known by a phoney psychic. But, the characters all start to halluncinate because they are drugged.

* SpookySeance: In the episode "Camera Obscura" Molloy is invited to photograph spirits at a séance. The characters are made to sit around the table and hold hands with each other and a "spirit queen" medium. The medium seems to actually conjure spirits as the spirit knows things that could not be known by a phoney psychic.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Subverted slightly, The Blennerhasset family is mean and sniping to each other and to Molloy. Nancy's brother has some serious dark secrets, but Brock's brother and sister while verbally vicious are not evil.

* MadwomanInTheAttic: In the second episode, when the team photographs a dead child. It seems like the boy is haunting the house at first but, it turns out his twin brother is autistic and their parents have been keeping him locked up in the "nursery" at the top of the house.

* MadwomanInTheAttic: In the second episode, when the team photographs a dead child, the boy is haunting the house. It turns out his twin brother is autistic and their parents have been keeping him locked up in the "nursery" at the top of the house.

* SerialKiller: The stories are episodic, but there is a serial storyline throughout the mini-seies of someone killing people and the victims are posed like the subject of one of Blennerhasset’s portraits.

In Victorian Dublin Brock Blennerhasset, played by Michael Smiley is a “memorial photographer”; his profession is a relatively new one given how new photography was at the time, and many people think it’s weird as hell. Basically, he poses dead people, with their eyes open, to sit for a portrait before they’re buried. Very quickly Blennerhasset, on the insistence of his niece Nancy (played by Eileen O’Higgins), takes on assistant Conall Molloy, played by Kerr Logan. This is timely as Dublin Metropolitan Police detective Frederick Regan (Aidan O’Hare) is called to a murder scene where the victim is posed like a subject of one of Blennerhasset’s portraits,

* MadwomanInTheAttic: In the second episode when the team go to photograph a dead child, it seems the boy is haunting the house. It turns out his twin brother is autistic and their parents have been keeping him locked up in the "nursery" in the top of the house.

->''In Victorian Dublin Brock Blennerhasset, played by Michael Smiley is a “memorial photographer”; his profession is a relatively new one given how new photography was at the time, and many people think it’s weird as hell. Basically, he poses dead people, with their eyes open, to sit for a portrait before they’re buried. Very quickly Blennerhasset, o the insistence of his niece Nancy (played by Eileen O’Higgins) takes on assistant Conall Molloy, played by Kerr Logan. This is timely as Dublin Metropolitan Police detective Frederick Regan (Aidan O’Hare) is called to a murder scene where the victim is posed like a subject of one of Blennerhasset’s portraits,