"It stars Vic and Bob and a stellar backup cast Reece Shearsmith, Tim Healey, Mark Benton, Matt Lucas and Morwenna Banks. It starts off innocuously enough with Carl Palmer (Bob) returning to Catterick to visit his brother Chris (Vic) but quickly descends into anarchy. The extremely loose plot centres around the criminal antics of mummy's boy Tony (Shearsmith) but there are more tangents than a geometry conference."
"I first caught a glimpse of the sharp, dreamlike animation Monkey Dust back on BBC Three in the mid-2000s. I was mesmerised by its dark slice of post-millennium British life. Every week, each episode played somewhat the same, but with a tragic, twisted or nightmarish spin befalling the sad bunch of urban dwellers. Why did Clive perform depraved acts with German businessmen, his father in-law, or a dog and some peanut butter?"
"Nobody else seems to have heard of this, but Mrs Davies, starring Betty Gilpin, is brilliant, funny and bizarre. It starts off straightforwardly enough with a flashback to a medieval secret society and the holy grail, then back to modern day and a crimefighting nun in a world ruled by a benign AI. From there it gets odder each episode until it finally comes together and makes sen"
Catterick stars Vic and Bob alongside Reece Shearsmith, Tim Healey, Mark Benton, Matt Lucas and Morwenna Banks and follows Carl Palmer returning to visit his brother before descending into anarchic tangents centered on mummy's boy Tony. Monkey Dust uses sharp, dreamlike animation to portray a dark slice of post‑millennium British life with recurring tragic, twisted or nightmarish outcomes for urban characters. The OA mixes inter‑dimensional and time travel with long philosophical conversations that unsettle viewers. Mrs Davies, starring Betty Gilpin, blends medieval secret‑society flashbacks, a modern crimefighting nun and a benign AI into increasingly bizarre episodes that ultimately cohere.
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