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Daisy May and charlie cooper The funniest one is undoubtedly the brother-sister double act. their breakout mockumentary this countrywhich aired on BBC Three from 2017 to 2020, was an absolute delight, following cousins Kerry (played by Daisy May) and Curtain (Charlie) as they wander aimlessly around their small Cotswolds village, bickering, joking and anxiously awaiting the next scarecrow festival.
It took five years for the pair to work together again (except for a small role as Charlie’s sister). pitch-black comedy Am I being unfair?, Another great watch), and their big reunion project is a huge treat for audiences. The Coopers grew up fascinated by the paranormal, a passion inspired by the age-inappropriate horror films they watched together. his new bbc two show night Watch They are allowed to indulge in this obsession as they travel to the UK to “live in some of the most haunted places in this country” overnight.
Of course, their main objective is to find some evidence of supernatural phenomena, but they’re also hoping to reconnect as brother and sister, since their success has taken their careers in different directions. The early scenes flesh out their sibling dynamic: Daisy Mae is portrayed as more flighty, perhaps more reliable, while Charlie provides a more gruff counterpoint (“It’s just glorified gravel.” he says when she discusses her crystal collection).
First on their itinerary is Gloucester Prison, a place that is “reportedly as haunted as hell”. Charlie is hoping to see “a proper old hearty Victorian ghost” during his overnight stay, while Daisy May sets out to recreate a luxury experience in her prison bunk, kitted out with a few pieces of Louis Vuitton luggage, a dryrobe and various bits of beauty paraphernalia. A man named Clive is tasked with showing them around, and he takes great pleasure in telling them how many people have been hanged at the complex.
However, ghosts do not appear in daylight, so the scariest thing that happens when Clive is around is the lights going off without warning, which may have been a minor electrical fault. As the night draws to a close, there are more opportunities for Daisy Mae and Charlie to do what they do best: engage in alternately loving and insulting sibling conversations over a pad thai and some shrimp crackers (spare a thought for the delivery driver who was probably nervous when called to a haunted prison after hours).
Both of them take the possibility of communicating with the dead quite seriously, grappling with the big questions of life and death with typical disarming wit. They ponder that if you had the option to roam around freely for eternity, why would you bother with the prison you were confined in for years. As Daisy May says, “You’d rather be upsetting Morrison than here.” And the scene where Charlie wears a headset in an attempt to contact the ghosts via radio frequencies is a surreal joy, as he answers his sister’s very direct questions with a series of increasingly abstract words that he is “hearing” through the white noise.
Ghost hunting feels relatively low risk; There’s none of the camp anarchy or self-seriousness of old Derek Akorah and Yvette Fielding reruns. The real fun is in the back-and-forth between the siblings, and the way it moves from ridicule to sincerity (when Charlie tells his sister that he “looks”).[s] like john smith Pochahontas”, you can tell this backhanded compliment is reminiscent of childhood afternoons in front of the TV).
In fact, spending time with this pair is so enjoyable that the show’s premise seems insignificant, irrelevant even. I’d be very happy to see both of them visiting various Post Office branches around the country, racing the trolley around TK Maxx or rating the country’s garden centers (if you’re reading this, BBC, there’s plenty more where that came from). It remains to be seen whether or not they’ll actually encounter any “proper” ghosts, but letting the two of them do their thing when the stakes are low still makes for great entertainment.