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But also, if you’re not at Berlinale film festival literally no worries.
You can cosy up at home and have a proper laugh on the sofa. Get the dog involved if you have one? Or a cat? If you don’t have a dog or a cat, could you borrow one?
Anyway. I watched Mackenzie Crook’s new comedy - don’t read too widely about it for risk of spoilers, and don’t binge it, its too good for that.
Too good to binge. Maybe that’ll be RecDek’s new weekly award.
When grief meets magic in south Manchester, our pick of the week…
SMALL PROPHETS (BBC iPlayer)
The Detectorists creator returns with something quietly extraordinary about loss, hope, and the fantastic hiding in the everyday.
Michael (Pearce Quigley) lives alone in an overgrown semi at the end of a Manchester cul-de-sac. His routine: wake from strange bird dreams, coax battered Ford Capri to life, work boring DIY superstore job, visit dad's nursing home, return to silent house. Been this way seven years since girlfriend Clea disappeared Christmas Eve - they found her car by Severn Bridge.
This could be depressing misery-fest but Crook, wouldn’t disappoint. Michael's not the raggedy eccentric he appears - theres’s mischievous intelligence in how he winds up gullible customers. His father Brian (Michael Palin) can't remember Clea's gone but constructs brilliant Rube Goldberg marble runs.
Quigley was Detectorists supporting player, now gets the lead role he's earned. Lauren Patel (mostly Waterloo Road before this) is sensational as thwarted, hopeful Kacey. Palin as the forgetful father who understands exactly what matters. Jon Pointing plays Clive, millennial curtain-twitcher constantly trying to complain about Michael's hedge but always leaving confused and outfoxed. Crook himself as ponytailed boss Gordon.
Every mystery - Kacey's improbable dream, what Michael does in his house preserving Clea's memory, the sullen teenager endlessly cycling round the close - resolves with bursts of imagination that seem fantastically unlikely then suddenly logical. Unpredictable in the best way.
Brilliant, original British television still exists. Crook's found treasure again, this time in concrete and cul-de-sacs instead of dirt.
See you at the House.
Ed
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