Has a living nightmare ever been so howlingly funny? After mainlining the second series of Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli’s deeply unsettling dramedy about a woman in the throes of a nervous breakdown – one fuelled by a) her husband chucking her out for having an affair with his late brother; b) the guilt of having secretly killed said brother; c) anxiety about her son’s murderous tendencies, and d) finding out her new best friend’s favourite hobby is recording their private conversations – I seriously doubt it. If you love to laugh, and especially if you like those laughs to be underpinned by thrumming dread and moral turpitude, I doubt you will find a more gratifying show all year.
Enthusiasts of Am I Being Unreasonable? will know all this already, which has made the wait for its return feel interminable. Yet while two-and-a-half years have passed in reality, time has stood still in the world of the show: series one ended with Nic (Cooper) having a hallucinatory panic attack at a memorial service for her brother-in-law Alex – her flashbacks revealing that she deliberately caused his death after he rejected her. Series two opens with Nic fleeing the same scene before slinking back to the family home to check on her son Ollie (who seems fine, bar the fact that he recently killed the cat) and ask her furious husband if she can sleep on the sofa. Rejected, again, she is left with only one option: her recently acquired bestie Jen.
