Nighty Night
Created by Julia Davis
On BBC Three
A caustic, deliberately offensive dark comedy that mines cruelty and narcissism for laughs, built around a sociopath's manipulation of vulnerable people.
Jill Tyrell is a narcissistic sociopath who manages a beauty parlour alongside her moronic, asthmatic assistant Linda. When Jill learns that her husband has cancer, she uses this fact to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole, a wheelchair user with multiple sclerosis whose husband Don, a womanising doctor, Jill has become obsessed with.
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Like Nighty Night
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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
