“Say Nothing demonstrates that war can easily bring groups of people together,” writes The Atlantic staff writer Shirley Li. “Ending the fighting—reckoning with atrocities, confessing to misdeeds, and assigning blame—is the hard part.” Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s Orwell Prize-winning book from 2018, the series tells the story of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the haunting kidnapping and murder of Jean McConville, a mother of 10. “Joining the IRA was the noblest thing a person could do,” we hear in the show, which shifts between the 1970s and the 2000s, tracing Catholic republicans’ fight for independence against Protestant groups and British forces in Northern Ireland. Keefe’s research—grounded in personal interviews and an oral history project at Boston College—underpins the series. At its heart is Dolours Price, a young militant who we follow from childhood, to her role in an IRA offshoot called the Provisional IRA, to her death, in 2013. “She embodies the struggle to separate your life and identity from the larger conflict,” says Li, “even after it ends.” —Jeanne Malle

Say Nothing is also available for streaming on FX.