Your husband's losing his mind and the picnic's ruined — British TV drama hits different.
Family picnics should not be like this; bugging devices, men with X-ray eyes. Mary doesn't understand what terrifies Simon, nor the bizarre events of the next six months.
Acting
Stephen Moore's crumbling sanity is genuinely uncomfortable.
Direction
Joyce makes suburban mundanity feel actively hostile.
Director
Paul Joyce
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for BBC2's 'Playhouse' slot, this exemplifies the era's grim social realism before Thatcherism fully killed it.
Director Paul Joyce was primarily a documentarian; this rare drama credit explains the almost clinical observation of Simon's decline.
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