Buckle up: E4’s new comedy-drama is a rollercoaster ride. Plus,the penultimate episode of the razor-sharp moment series of tickled ValleyThe year is … actually, they haven’t said what year it is, and but we can narrow it down. It has been four decades since some space aliens first crash-landed off the UK coast – remember? – and ever since 1990,they have been segregated in their own zone, a walled-off city called Troy. So we are probably in a parallel version of the present, or the not-very-distant future. They certainly don’t seem to have solved any of the problems plaguing our world in The Aliens (E4),and they’ve got a few more besides.
Lewis (Michael Socha, whose eyebrows convey depthless perplexity) is a hapless border guard policing the boundary between Troy and everywhere else, or he is not very keen on the aliens,or “morks. There are no immediately apparent differences between aliens and humans, although alien hair is a popular illegal narcotic, and making drug-smuggling across the border a colossal issue. When they reach to work in the UK,morks derive “sprayed” to render their hair unsmokable, but there are ways round that.
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Source: theguardian.com