May the farce be with you Photograph: Star Force “I got bored of making banana bread,” laughs Kevin Mains, one of the creators of possibly the most bafflingly brilliant piece of work to grace 2020: Star Force: Sci-Fisolation. He, along with his brother – the director Ross Mains – and friend, writer and actor Brendan O’Rourke – are the reason that on any given day you might find multiple Emmy nominee Caitriona Balfe pretending to ride her cat around her living room, X-Men star James McAvoy brandishing a drill-like a gun against Outlander star Sam Heughan’s banana, or Jon Snow himself, Kit Harington, swishing around in a multi-coloured bathrobe like a malevolent Joseph. All in different houses, recorded on their phones. All on behalf of a 25-year-old director who has just finished his shift in a call centre. They might be my heroes.