Moone Boy

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July 1, 2017 In my Watchlist on the video-on-demand service hulu is the series Moone Boy, about Martin Moone, who lives with his family in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, and who has an imaginary grownup male friend named Seán Caution Murphy. Seán helps him cope with his flakey family and with Life in general. Martin's best friend in real life is Padraic O'Dwyer (played by Ian O'Reilly); Padraic's imaginary friend is called Crunchie Danger Haystacks. According to Wikipedia, the series is semi-autobiographical of Chris O'Dowd, who created the series and is co-writer and co-stars as Seán Caution Murphy. Wikipedia also tells us "Moone Boy won an International Emmy for best comedy and In 2014, it won an Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) Award for best entertainment programme." .... The Guardian called it "the most life-affirming delight to have hit our screens in a long time". I totally agree with The Guardian starting with the introductory music. I'd never heard, or heard of, Where's Me Jumper, performed by The Sultans of Ping FC, a punk band I'd also never heard of. Who says entertainment isn't educational? Moone Boy is available on DVD.