Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestDean Smith is an ageing photographer. He’s almost 70, but there’s still a glint in his eye. TV’s ‘face of culture’, Miranda Walker, is interviewing him for television and asks about his muse. Once the cameras are off the question unlocks a story about Charlotte, aged 19, a Penthouse model. As old magazines and photographs are pulled from shelves it emerges that he’s a man consumed by an untouchable fantasy. A two-dimensional image sparked a moment of sexual awakening that he’s spent a lifetime trying to recapture.
A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by Jarvis Cocker and starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham.
Acting
Johnny Vegas subverts every expectation—genuinely haunting.
Score
Jarvis Cocker's music creeps under your skin perfectly.
Direction
Forsyth & Pollard bring art-gallery precision to TV horror.
Creator
Neil Gaiman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Forsyth & Pollard previously directed the Nick Cave documentary '20,000 Days on Earth'—their music-video background shows in every frame.
These stories first appeared in Gaiman's 1996 collection 'Smoke and Mirrors'—the TV adaptation waited twenty years for the right weirdos to make it.
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