The 50 best TV shows of 2020: No 8 – This Country
Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 23.37 EST Three lots of six episodes and one special: 280 minutes, in mockumentary format, of some of the most tender, densely written, hysterically funny television you are ever likely to see. It was created by siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, and follows the tiny trials and tribulations that dance comically atop the underlying tragedies of early twentysomething cousins Kerry (Daisy May) and Lee “Kurtan” Mucklowe (Charlie) in the small village somewhere between Swindon (reachable if you plan and prepare carefully enough) and Bristol, which ranks in ...