Even though it's set in Ireland (or the weird fantasy version of Ireland that Americans think is real), 'Wild Mountain Thyme' still doesn't have a release date in Ireland, nor has it been shown to Irish critics as of yet.
As of writing, the movie currently has a 28% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the reviews describing it as a "baffling misfire" and "total nonsense" (but in a good way, apparently), so odds are it's as bad as we all thought it was going to be.
While Emily Blunt has been out talking up how difficult the Irish accent is to master, Jon Hamm's taking a different approach to soothing over the nation - confronting us with our own bullshit.
In a recent interview on 'The Bill Simmons Podcast', Hamm discussed 'Wild Mountain Thyme' and, yes, the national reaction to the movie came up.
"It got some blowback in Ireland, because the Irish love nothing more than complaining about depictions about themselves, kind of like Boston," to which Simmons chimed in agreement. "It wouldn't be good unless they complained about it," Hamm added.
First of all, that's correct - but you don't need to say it out loud. We all know we're like this. Christ, begrudgery and revenge are our national pastimes.
"The Irish were like, 'we're not all farmers', 'some of us work for Google' - fine! It's not about the Irish tech boom of the '90s. We're telling a fable, it's a fable. It's snark-free, it's just earnest, it's a love story," Hamm went on, adding that the tone and the sentiment behind the movie is the antidote to 2020.
Is it, though? You're pissing off an entire country - the very country the movie is set in, in fact - with blithe observations, indifferent to the massive upheaval and societal shifts in the past thirty years, not to mention the fact that people everywhere generally don't enjoy being infantilised. That's just more fuel on the fire, Jon Hamm.
Don Draper should know that if you don't like what people are saying, then change the conversation.
