The Rachel Incident: Story, Cast and Series Facts
The Rachel Incident: Drama. Series details, synopsis, cast and season dates from TVmaze.

Story and premise
The Rachel Incident is aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humour about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three…
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it is love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate, and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork City, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred's glamorous, well-connected wife Deenie.
Series details
- Title: The Rachel Incident
- Format: Scripted
- Language: English
- Genres: Drama
- Status in TVmaze: In Development
- Network listed by TVmaze: Channel 4
- Network country: United Kingdom
- TVMaze ID: 82578
- IMDb ID: tt28230421
- TVDB ID: 474076
Cast and credited roles
- Máiréad Tyers — Rachel
- Ellis Howard — James
- Sarah Greene — Deenie
- Daniel Ings — Dr. Fred Byrne
Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue
- Season 1: episode order: 8.
Source and licence
Adapted from The Rachel Incident on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.


