Absurd, slapstick-driven British TV series revolves around a trio of hapless bookshop workers who have zero grip on reality
The premise is simple: misanthropic Bernard Black owns a secondhand bookshop, the perpetually hapless Manny lives and works with him, and the third leg of their alcoholic and somewhat toxic trio, Fran , spends most of her time drinking in the bookshop with them.
One of my favourite episodes, The Big Lockout, takes Bernard out on to the cold streets at night after he’s been locked out of his shop, forced to engage with movie theatres, pornography shops and fast-food stores, an escalating horror that’s both unique to him but also somehow completely understandable. You begin to see why these people have withdrawn from the world and hide out in a grimy bookshop, smoking and drinking. The outside world is surreal and strange and antagonistic.
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