Overview
A cutting edge comedy animation painting a fabulously warped satirical view of Britain... Welcome to your very own urban nightmare - a nocturnal world populated by the sad, the lonely and the emotionally crippled on the wrong side of sunlight. Its' satirical targets range across the whole spectrum of Cruel Britannia from dysfunctional families to heartless government departments.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | UK |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Network: | BBC Three |
| Watched by: | 4 042 996 517 |
| Total running time: | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Episode duration: | |
| Episodes: | 18 |
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A witty, accurate and ruthless mockery of human stupidity, vulgarity, phobias, prejudices and stereotypes, a deliberately outspoken and defiant mockery of taboo topics such as religion, political correctness, nationalism, sexual perversion and suicide, an evil, bantering and unflattering satire on the hypocrisy of public morality and on the various vices and quirks of society and individuals. Despite the grotesqueness and caricature, the types and sores are recognizable, real and relevant, the absurdity of what is happening paradoxically emphasizes its sad authenticity and the authenticity of all these abnormal ones.
Not only the psychos, the stories are also extremely different, including in style and depth, in the significance of the theme and the obscenity of the presentation. Some seemed outrageous solely for the sake of outrage. Some are primitive. Nevertheless, it is done with talent, intelligence and unusual, the series stands out and is remembered not only for its depressiveness.
Language. They speak naturally, in a variety of ways, sometimes with rather complex accents, slang, vocabulary and phrases. Sometimes subtitles were just necessary. Unfortunately, they were found only for the first season. I had to watch something in Parfenov's voice acting, which, I must admit, was quite good.