Don’t think you can view this is out of the UK (sorry) but this new series is really fucking funny! Mongrels. An urban, multi-species, adult, puppet comedy, tells the tale of four urban animals who hang out together in the bin yard of an inner-city pub.
The Guardian say:
I’m wondering how much of my amusement at Mongrels (BBC3), of which there is a considerable amount, has to do with the fact that cuddly children’s toys are saying things you wouldn’t normally expect cuddly children’s toys to say. Like “You are such a cock-end”. And doing things you might not expect them to do. Like the three starving cats, who tuck into Margaret, their pensioner owner, who’s been lying dead at the bottom of the stairs for a few months.
Quite a lot, probably. And though it is funny, it won’t remain unexpected for long, the novelty will wear off at some point not too far away. It’s not just Muppets with Tourette Syndrome, though. Mongrels is a thing of great imagination in its own right, a surreal world where pigeons are jewel thieves, minor celebrities makes surprise appearances, and chickens date foxes (the attempt at a snog is lovely: beak on muzzle, it just doesn’t work). The fox ends up inside a microwave, spinning on the spinny dish, while his brain melts from the inside. And Marion the main cat is castrated. But, as Destiny the Afghan (hound) says, you can achieve a hell of a lot without any testicles.
