Binge this if you dare. I lost count of the bits of other films/tv series/people or just characters it "borrowed" from in order to tell this (far-from) simple story. Which, incidentally different from a lot of the reviews I've read so far, I found hilarious and was totally hooked-on.
It uses all the "devices" you find in more conventional stories: only it mixes them up when you least expect them. Like when the "omniscient" narrator says, "Remember me...?" Or when the "Stone Killer" turns out to love pasties!
The actors who do all this amazing deadpanning are really on their game throughout. Paterson Joseph's face deserves its own show and all of the other "stereotypes" ham it up like they're really in on the secret all along. Which, of course, they are.
People who talk about "cliches" or "unbelievable plot twists" should be watching more Eastenders and leaving the real good stuff alone.
I'd have given it a 10 but that isn't done is it!
It uses all the "devices" you find in more conventional stories: only it mixes them up when you least expect them. Like when the "omniscient" narrator says, "Remember me...?" Or when the "Stone Killer" turns out to love pasties!
The actors who do all this amazing deadpanning are really on their game throughout. Paterson Joseph's face deserves its own show and all of the other "stereotypes" ham it up like they're really in on the secret all along. Which, of course, they are.
People who talk about "cliches" or "unbelievable plot twists" should be watching more Eastenders and leaving the real good stuff alone.
I'd have given it a 10 but that isn't done is it!