Combat Sheep is a heart warming Christmas story of four army mascots who have been made redundant due to military cutbacks and are jettisoned into the cold to face civvie life and it’s bleak options on offer.
Acting
Coogan's deadpan sheep commander is unhinged perfection
Writing
Darkly funny script treats sheep trauma with absolute sincerity
Director
Dominic Brigstocke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a failed pilot for a full series, which explains the compressed emotional whiplash and dangling plot threads.
Brigstocke later directed episodes of Horrible Histories and Ghosts, proving his knack for making the ridiculous genuinely moving.
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