Small Prophets

Matt Roush says...

As quietly eccentric as it is droll, this acclaimed British comedy from writer-director Mackenzie Crook (Detectorists) stars Pearce Quigley as Michael Sleep, a melancholy loner who gets his jollies confounding customers at the Home Depot-like store where he loafs under the gaze of his annoying boss, Gordon (Crook). Alone at home, behind an overgrown garden that’s the bane of his nosy neighbor (Jon Pointing), Michael grieves for his soulmate Clea, who left him without a trace seven years ago. When his retiree father (Monty Python alum Michael Palin) turns Michael on to the magical notion of creating tiny homunculi through alchemy, in hopes that their prophecies will reveal the truth about Clea’s vanishing act, our hero gets to work in his shed, with surreal results. The series opens with two episodes.

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