Synopsis
Psychoville (2009) is a British black-comedy mystery you can watch online on iFILM. Five strangers scattered across the country open the same note: "I know what you did." No signature. And every one of them has something to bury.
The lineup of suspects matches the show's absurd streak: a children's-party clown with a hook for a hand and a hair-trigger temper, a grown man-child with murderous habits living under his mother Maureen's thumb, a blind millionaire obsessed with a deeply creepy collection, a midwife who cradles a doll as if it were a real baby, and a theme-park dwarf besotted with a Snow White actress. The blackmailer knots all their fates into one. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton write it and star, fresh off the cult favourite The League of Gentlemen, playing most of the grotesques themselves.
Across two seasons on BBC Two it walks the line between the macabre and outright farce until the laugh sticks in your throat. The series built a devoted following and packs each episode with a web of callbacks and pitch-black gags. Made for anyone who loves British absurdism in the vein of The League of Gentlemen and doesn't mind being unsettled and amused at once. Stream every episode of Psychoville online on iFILM.
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