Add This Irish Thriller To Your Netflix Watch List
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Clean Sweep is streaming now
Following in the footsteps of RTÉ’s fan favourite drug drama, Kin, Clean Sweep has made the transition from the Irish broadcaster to the BBC to Netflix. Almost immediately landing in the UK top 10, Clean Sweep centres on a stay at home mum whose past comes back to haunt her – and her husband is the detective on her case. Here’s what you need to know before you tune in.
Shelly Mohan (CHARLENE McKENNA) in Clean Sweep. (ZDF Studios/Deidre Brennan)
What Is Clean Sweep About?
Clean Sweep is a six-part thriller centring on Shelly Mohan (Charlene McKenna), a stay at home mother of three juggling her kids’ complex schedules while her husband Jason (Barry Ward) works long hours as a detective. But cracks begin to show in their picture-perfect life when Shelly is confronted with a man from her past – her literal partner in crime from her past life, who claims he has come to save her from her past sins since he has found God. ‘Maggie is dead,’ Shelly says – and the story behind that statement, and the duo’s involvement in her death, unfurls across Clean Sweep’s six episodes. But alone, Shelly kills her unnamed, reappeared accomplice, and flees the scene. All is well and good – until her husband is put in charge of the investigation.
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Is Clean Sweep Based On A True Story?
Clean Sweep is reportedly inspired by true events – though the real story creator Gary Tieche drew on has never been specified. But the idea of killers hiding in plain sight, cultivating a new life in the suburbs, is not a rare one.
Where Was It Filmed?
Clean Sweep was filmed in south Dublin, Wicklow, Killiney and Bray.
Jason Mohan (BARRY WARD) in Clean Sweep. (ZDF Studios/Deidre Brennan)
The Cast
- Charlene McKenna as Shelly Mohan
- Barry Ward as Jason Mohan
- Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle as Fiona Uba
- Adam Fergus as Charlie Lynch
- Katelyn Rose Downey as Caitlin Mohan
- Aidan McCann as Niall Mohan
- Rhys Mannion as Derek Mohan
- Grace Collender as Doireann Carrick
- Aoibheann McCann as Katie Ryan
- Trevor Kaneswaran as Matt Wilson
- Evan Crimmins as Tony
- Caitríona Ennis as Mary
- Youssef Quinn as Baxter
- Peter McCamley as DI Yeats
- Cathy Belton as DCI Crichett
- Seán Duggan as Garda Pat O’Connor
Will There Be A Season 2?
With all narrative threads tied up neatly and no word from RTÉ, it doesn’t seem like Clean Sweep season 2 is on the cards.
WATCH
All six episodes of Clean Sweep are available to stream now on Netflix and BBC iPlayer.
