This Country review – return of the sublime Cotswolds mockumentary

More comic perfection from brother and sister writers and actors Charlie and Daisy Cooper, revealing the tedium of country life for young people. Plus, The Seven Year SwitchThrough what I presumed to be the malign manoeuverings of the unbenevolent gods of television, this is the first chance – as we come to the second episode of its second series – I have had to review This Country, the sublime creation of brother and sister double-act Charlie and Daisy May Cooper.In this purported documentary about the difficulties faced by young people in rural areas, the real-life siblings play cousins Kurtan and Kelly Mucklowe, whose life of unrelenting tedium in their tiny Cotswold village is alleviated only by Kelly’s slavish self-mythologising as a feared local legend – despite the fact that her gang is composed entirely of year sevens – and the small stirrings deep within Kurtan (a perilous few per cent brighter than Kelly) that there might be an indefinable something better, somewhere else. Oh, and the annual scarecrow festival of course. Continue reading…
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