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It gives a glimpse of the film's heightened and highly stylised gothic approach, and is full of pent-up tension, shots of bread being suggestively kneaded, and a finger being put into a fish's mouth.

The series is very much a heightened thriller, Martin said, but with a very clear message.

Doomscrolling, a word that can now be found in the dictionary, is the act of endlessly consuming news and content that heightens feelings of anxiety, sadness, or anger.

Our Boy placed that child’s consciousness inside a synthetic body resembling an adult woman, then endowed that construct with superior strength, heightened reflexes and a supercomputer with remote hacking capabilities for a brain.

And you feel that only heightens the pressure when a home match comes around.