Mammals (Amazon Prime) is a rare foray into television by wunderkind playwright Jez Butterworth, starring his friend James Corden. If that conjunction gives you mental whiplash, at least it will be good preparation for watching the thing.
Corden plays Jamie Buckingham, a devoted husband to Amandine (Melia Kreiling), who is expecting their first child. We meet them holidaying next to Sir Tom Jones (playing himself) and watching in awe as a whale surfaces majestically in front of them. Everything, you see, is going to be metaphor, even if it is not yet and may never be entirely clear for what.
