TV series

Decline and Fall

2017 · 1 season

A wry, briskly paced romp through upper-class absurdity, watching a hapless innocent get bounced from one ridiculous misfortune to the next.

Overview: Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.
How it feels: Satirical, absurd, cynical and light. Brisk and needs your attention.
About: Class, power, corruption, identity
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: satiricalstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
power
corruption
identity
justice
Places: school
countryside
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild