Darklands episode 5 airs tonight, Monday 4th October at 9pm on Virgin Media One.
Judith, who plays Bernie, said she was “quite proud” of the comparisons between the two shows, as she opened up about her character Bernie.” she said. “It is such a wonderful Irish show that we can stand by, that has reached out across many countries and is very recognisable.
“ quite a badass, too – it’s just fun. There’s just many strings to her bow, which is quite fun – instead of playing the wife or the mother .” “Once the series progresses up to the final episode, it does hurdle a long quite fast, the stakes get quite high,” she teased. “Bernie comes into play a good bit towards episode six. She’s not to be messed with, that’s for sure.
“You come in at a certain pitch – there’s no half measures with a character like that,” she said, discussing her character’s entrance on the show. “It was as written. I’m essentially just playing out what Lisa McGee wrote.anyways. It was just such nice thing to walk in to a second series of something that – essentially, I’m riding the coattails of a very successful show already and just adding my signature alongside it.