created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, Grit, Grime, and Grace Aboard the Last Ship of the Empire If The Crown depicts the burden of tradition in palaces and parlours, Red Dwarf does the same at the arse end of the universe, in a space-mining vessel held together with duct tape and stubbornness. This is not prestige sci-fi, …
A surreal slice of seaside paranoia, “The Prisoner” is what happens when British exceptionalism takes a long walk and finds itself kidnapped by a Kafkaesque bureaucracy in a bowler hat. But beneath the eccentricity lies the Anglofuturist marrow: a war veteran, Number 6, clinging fiercely to identity, liberty, and honour even when faced with weather …