Every now and then it happens that an excellent series slips off the buzz radar and goes on air with zero PR and zero expectations. And when we say “occasionally”, we mean it’s very, very rare. The promotion mechanisms of the television networks and the streaming services are world champions in creating preliminary expectations for the rise of a new series, so it is not clear how “Rain Dogs” – which appeared last week on HBO and BBC (and with us under the name “Against the Wind” on HOT and yes) – managed to arouse so few such expectations. But it is quite clear why many critics have already crowned her as the “surprise of the year”. No one just saw it coming.
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There’s no nice way to say it: it’s an unapologetically black British comedy with a punk attitude, and it kicks as hard as it can at late capitalism from its poor, broken side. At the center of the story is an “unconventional love story between a single mother Keshet Yom, her young daughter and a privileged gay man”, as the creator of the series, the British literary sensation Cash Carraway, enjoyed presenting it very much. In 2019, she released her debut book, “Skint Estate”, in which she unfolded her personal story as a working and very poor single mother in London at the beginning of the previous decade. Critics compared her to Charles Bukowski, entertainment corporations in Great Britain and the United States fought for the rights to television and film (the BBC won), but then the corona virus came and she dropped the idea and decided to make something really funny out of the lemons that life gave her.
At least according to the premiere episode that aired last week, “Rain Dogs” is a most impressive confection of merciless humor on the outside and touching human sweetness on the inside. His heroines are very reminiscent of the British version of “Shameless”, they also come from the lowest place in English society, but here the story focuses, as mentioned, on a mother (comedian Daisy May Cooper) who will do everything to enable a reasonable life for her daughter (the young discovery Fleur Tashjian) and simply It is impossible not to be in her favor. At the opening of the first episode, they are evicted from their apartment and become homeless, but what could have turned into a gloomy Mike Lee film quickly develops here into a blunt social satire with a lot of joie de vivre. fun.
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