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E4 and Netflix Bringing The End of The F***ing World!

by Dave Elliott
E4 and Netflix Bringing The End of The F***ing World!

E4 and Netflix Bringing The End of The F***ing World!

No need to panic! Netflix haven’t gone power mad, and used their ill-gotten subscription fees to start a militarised take down of Amazon.

The End of The F***ing World is a new tv show based on the award-winning comic books by Charles Forsman. It invites viewers into the dark and confusing lives of teen outsiders James, played by Alex Lawther (Black Mirror, The Imitation Game) and Alyssa, played by Jessica Barden (The Lobster, Ellen, Penny Dreadful) as they embark on a road trip to find Alyssa’s father, who left home when she was a child.

James is 17 and pretty sure he’s a psychopath… Emotionally detached, cold and disdainful, he’s decided he’s ready to graduate from killing animals. He thinks it might be interesting to kill something bigger… a human. And he’s got the perfect person in mind…

Alyssa is also 17, and new to James’ school. She’s cool and moody… existential angst made flesh. Despite being popular in class, she still feels like she doesn’t belong, but spotting James one day, she thinks she may have found a soulmate. When things come to a head at home between Alyssa, her mother and stepdad, she leaves and persuades James to join her in search of her real father.

And so begins a journey of discovery that becomes progressively ominous as James’s urge to act on his sociopathic and violent inclinations increase while Alyssa, blinded by young love, remains wilfully ignorant of the consequences that lie at the end of the road. One night, however, the pair find themselves caught up in events that lead them down an ever more menacing and surreal path.

The show is described as “dark, intriguing, tense and chilling, and shot through with moments of dark absurdity and humour”, and given Clerkenwell Films, the people responsible for Misfits, The Aliens, and Lovesick are behind it, you get some idea of the tone. Charlie Covell (Banana, Burn, Burn, Burn and Gap Year) is has written the series.

“From the instant we were introduced to the utterly original Charles Forsman graphic novel we knew it was something special, ” comments Roberto Troni, commissioning editor at Channel 4. “Reimagined by the multi-talented Charlie Covell, Jon Entwistle and the guys at Clerkenwell for this side of the Atlantic, it’s by turns funny, brutally violent, ultimately quite uplifting in a screwed up way. If David Lynch made a rom-com road movie about a pair of teen misfits in British suburbia it might look something like The End of the F**cking World. What could be more E4?”

Filming has just begun on the 8 x 30min episodes of The End of The F***ing World which will arrive on E4 later in the year in the UK, and be available on Netflix globally.

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