
Shifty
S01E04: Part Four - The Grinder
Those in power begin to distrust you. Once you were a heroic individual. Now you are a creature of HR. And the prime minister is just a man in blue underpants. UFO over Surrey. Water is contaminated. Pigs walking into walls. Traitors in Downing Street. Night sweats. Ram-raiding Currys. ERM underwear. Dreaming of Sutton Coldfield. Nuns play ping pong. Sod Off. HR comes to the Zoo. The official report insists it’s anxiety, not water. Jane Hawking hates her husband's rational smile. Cleaning up dragon shit. Privatised companies play mathematical games. The rabbits are not anxious. But there may be alternative dimensions where they are. The politicians lose control of the economy.
Overview
This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.
Episodes


S01E02 Part Two - Suspicion

S01E03 Part Three - I Love a Millionaire

S01E04 Part Four - The Grinder
