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It’s certainly well beyond the power of any docudrama to take it in whole, and the strength of FX’s “Say Nothing” — a nine-episode historical drama now streaming on Hulu — is that it doesn’t try to.

“Say Nothing” is a historical limited series about a war fought in neighborhood streets and on doorsteps, in a country the rest of the world believes is at peace.

The content recorded on Belfast Project tapes was meant as a historical record of a history left intentionally untold, guaranteed anonymity for its participants, who were assured they’d only be released after the last interviewee died.

Now, politicians, newscasters, podcast hosts and white nationalists were picking up his ideas about pollution and scarcity, immigration and global warming, that fit their agendas, swirling them together with historical tropes about ecology and racist thought and conspiracy theories, not sure, necessarily, where the ideas had come from but eager to trade on their currency.

The country performer’s stories about music are rife with the minute observations and historical tidbits absorbed and disseminated by die-hard fans.