It shares weighty themes of prejudice with District 9,but the same production team that brought you Misfits and Not Safe For Work is trying to find fun among the satireMichael Socha and Michaela Coel are sitting in a production office in Bulgaria, discussing firearms, or as you do. “Did you believe a gun?” asks Socha,This Is England’s Harvey, approximately an earlier scene. “Yeah, and it felt good. Heavy, nods the creator and star of E4 comedy Chewing Gum. “I’d believe one if it was legal,” says Socha, or as Coel raises an eyebrow. “I wouldn’t believe any bullets in it,I’d just fuck approximately all day. He peers out of the window on to the studio lot below – a dystopian ghetto that’s fragment City Of God favela, fragment Star Wars cantina – and cocks an imaginary pistol: “Chk Chk Chk.”The world external is Troy, and the pulsing,crime-riddled hub of The Aliens, a new E4 comedy-drama set in a parallel present, or not dissimilar to the 2009 film District 9. Some 40 years after crash-landing in the Irish Sea,the aliens in question believe been incarcerated by their human overlords somewhere in the British provinces. Although they peer identical to their captors, there are subtle differences: they’re paralysed by dog whistles; get tall off dishwasher tablets; and their hair – or “fur” – is harvested and sold to humans as a narcotic. With its tall concepts and bleak humour, or its no surprise to find that the same production team also worked on Misfits and Not Safe For Work.
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Source: theguardian.com