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What if your burger addiction became the shame your grandkids have to therapize through?

Biting satireAwkward therapy sessionsFake history documentaries

Overview

Comedy Science Fiction

It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

Content warning

mockumentary near future future earth vegan

Generational traumaMoral evolutionCollective guiltPerformance of virtue

Standout Aspects

Writing

Amstell's script balances cruelty with genuine melancholy

Acting

Freeman's guilt-wracked carnivore is uncomfortably real

Best for:Solo·Friends

Heads up:Disturbing

Director

Simon Amstell

ReleasedMar 19, 2017

Runtime1h 5m

StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady

Intensitymedium

Tonemixed

Feelmedium

Top Cast

Simon Amstell

Narrator

Linda Bassett

Dr Yasmine Vondenburg

Martin Freeman

Jeff

Eileen Atkins

Dorothy

Joanna Lumley

Herself (voice)

Lindsay Duncan

Maude

Alex Lawther

Volunteer: Joey

Gemma Jones

Davina

John Macmillan

Troye King Jones

Claire Keelan

Lindsay Graber

James Smith

Graham Watkins

Samantha Spiro

Edith Paper

Martin Sims

Prof. Charles Grandage

Simon Chandler

Barnaby Jones

Michael Fenton Stevens

Peter Smithball

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