Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

2016
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

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EP1 Foreign Parts May 26, 2016

There's a sense that time is running out. Our narrator, Simon, is like a man sinking in quicksand. He’s a man of routine. Rising, dressing, travelling to work on the DLR. Every day is the same. His sense of self is slipping away as he becomes (perhaps literally) someone else. It's a similar story for Dr Benham, stuck in his STD clinic watching a parade of patients come and go. In his parallel story of metamorphosis he’s being spat out by his own life. He too is becoming a different person, from the feet up.

EP2 Feeders and Eaters May 26, 2016

We’re caught in the nocturnal world of the all-night café. Joyce, a very pregnant young waitress, is our way in. A man from her past, Eddie Barrow, appears as if from nowhere with a pressing urgency to tell his story. Joyce wants us to hear it. Eddie tells us a love story – a strange, Gothic, warped and weird love story. He tells us about Effie, the old lady who lives in a room opposite his in a boarding house. Effie is a remarkable, magical woman. However, she needs raw meat to survive.

EP3 Closing Time May 29, 2016

Our narrator in Closing Time is a raconteur, a writer and late-night barfly engaging in the tradition of weaving club stories for his fellow drinkers. Feeling the warmth of company and loosened by drink, he expertly draws people in as he spins his tale. He’s also suppressing a painful memory. Guilt-ridden thoughts have haunted him since childhood and they manifest themselves as a ghost story, his past consumed by the human instinct to mythologise memories when they hurt too much.

EP4 Looking for the Girl May 29, 2016

Dean Smith is an ageing photographer. He’s almost 70, but there’s still a glint in his eye. TV’s ‘face of culture’, Miranda Walker, is interviewing him for television and asks about his muse. Once the cameras are off the question unlocks a story about Charlotte, aged 19, a Penthouse model. As old magazines and photographs are pulled from shelves it emerges that he’s a man consumed by an untouchable fantasy. A two-dimensional image sparked a moment of sexual awakening that he’s spent a lifetime trying to recapture.
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Released: 26 May 2016 Ended
Producted By: Sid Gentle Films
Country: United Kingdom
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Official Website: https://www.sky.com/watch/channel/sky-arts/neil-gaimans-likely-stories
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A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by Jarvis Cocker and starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham.

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cathleengrado These are relatively short, but really charming and creepy adaptations. I hope it gets renewed, as I greatly enjoyed them. Watching them felt truly like reading a story, as they are slow but you are gradually drawn in. The production quality and acting are stellar.
brockhursta I'm somewhat familiar with Neil Gaiman, his stories lead you somewhere that makes you ever-so uncomfortable but incredibly intrigued. I have listened to some of his poetry and short stories, i've just started reading his books so his style of storytelling is something you need experience with otherwise you end up describing as 'boring'. Its nuanced, its subtle, and its beautiful. I had to put down my computer while watching this in order to pay it more attention; it demands it. Everything seemed so perfectly placed. He is a master at world weaving. The atmosphere reminded me of Pan's Labyrinth, please watch it. This was my first review. I apologise
pasionporelrojo It's quite simple to review this show: BoringThere is no much more you can say about it. The stories are boring, without any kind of interest, you don't connect with actors, etc. I was hoping for some "twilight zone" kind of show, but it's the opposite, there is nothing here to captivate you, just plain regular boring stories with endings that make you think "25 minutes for this???" Do you know when you are in the subway, going to your office and you hear a couple of persons next to you talking about small talks, or stories that you are not interested in? That conversations are way more interesting than this show.Save your time and don't watch it, doesn't worth any minute.