Where to find it: BBC iPlayer
Length: Five 30-minute episodes
Synopsis: More brilliant satire from Charlie Brooker and Diane Morgan
Recommendation rating: 4/5
What I like about it: hilarious, occasionally informative, Morgan is funny in everything
What I don’t like about it: 1989 Belgian techno anthem Pump Up The Jam
Review:
Diane Morgan plays recurring character Philomena Cunk as she tries to get to grips with concepts far beyond her frame of reference. Academics attempt to deadpan their way through her hyperbolic, tangential questioning. Some brilliant satirical lines which show how the world got quite so messed up – “[the industrial revolution] ushered in an age of convenience but also threatened all life on Earth. So, swings and roundabouts really.” – and parody of the cheap flashiness of BBC documentaries.
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