TV series

The Strange World of Gurney Slade

1960 · 1 season

A dreamy, self-aware wander through odd vignettes that feels like a playful but lonely meditation on television itself.

Tagline: I am a walking television show.
Overview: Anthony Newley stars as an actor who walks off the set of a banal sit-com and into a fantasy world of his own imagination in this surreal odyssey through one man's personal alternative reality.
How it feels: Absurd, whimsical, satirical and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, media, isolation, freedom
Content: Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
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Full breakdown

Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
media
isolation
freedom
madness
Places: fantasy world
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none