Grown man, W, struggles to come to terms with the death of his domineering mother, only to discover that she's spending her dead existence very happily in a suburb of London.
Acting
Gwen Taylor's post-mortem smugness is *chef's kiss*.
Direction
Lushington stretches 15 minutes into a complete emotional arc.
Director
Jake Lushington
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a Will Self short story from his 1991 collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity. Self's original is significantly darker and more grotesque.
North London suburbs like Crouch End and Muswell Hill have long been shorthand in British culture for comfortable, slightly pretentious middle-class existence—making them the perfect ironic afterlife.
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