The 'Black Mirror' creator and Diane Morgan, co-star of 'After Life,' bring their obliviously comic TV presenter to a five-part series about human progress.
Cunk on Earth. But really it doesn’t matter, because Philomena Cunk has turned out to be increasingly funny the more Brooker and Morgan use her, which is far from normal when it comes to the expansion of initially one-note characters. And they’ve achieved this without sacrificing the character’s mockumentary core.is a consistently droll, frequently delightful series that mixes high and low comedy at a breakneck pace.
The conceit treats Cunk as a somewhat dead-eyed version of David Attenborough, traveling the globe — possibly for real and possibly just via greenscreen — and speaking with highly decorated experts about all the most important things related to civilization, including whether early humans had the same number of holes as we have, why society tends toward violent conflict, and the enduring pleasures of the video for Technotronic’s hit “Pump Up the Jam.
I’m not sure that Cunk’s Marxist-adjacent skepticism — she’s particularly cynical about the expanding American empire — lines up with the character so much as with Brooker’s worldview, nor do I fully buy Cunk’s existential pain at realizing that Laika, the first dog in space, died while up there, but these are things that give the character nuance and offer a reminder of how good and full a performance Morgan is giving.
tries occasionally to branch out in style. One episode has a very funny faux commercial that I won’t spoil — it made me laugh a lot. The episode on religion and the Dark Ages climaxes with a bizarrely imaginative one-woman fantasy sequence. A couple of smaller flourishes fall flat, but at least they don’t last long.
It’s mostly fun watching Brooker and Morgan figure out the new and different things they can do with this character. For American audiences,works as a no-context-required introduction. Worse comes to worst, it’s always just funny to say “Philomena Cunk.”
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