5/19/2023 0 Comments The midwich cuckoo bookIn the meantime, why not check out our roundup of the best TV shows of all time for some viewing inspiration. The Midwich Cuckoos comes to Sky Max from 2 June, with all episodes streaming on NOW. We're getting more and more familiar with women not being in control of their own bodies and having their destinies taken out of their hands, and I think that, unfortunately, is incredibly apposite to what we're now seeing happening world over. "Let's face it, it's about women, and there's all sorts of intimations there about violence and interference. "For me, the chance to tell the story from the point of view of the women, because the book has a male narrative, was too interesting to pass up," Troughton chimes in. We live in these safe towns, you know? Democracies, and yet we feel this constant sense of anxiety that we're not good enough or feeling that there's a better species that's about to take over from us," explains Farr. Its pretty slow and low key, just like the book. "We think we've created this perfect, consumerist, individualist world. So after reading the book, we watched the film from 1960 (I dread to think what the remakes like). In our world, that's not the terror anymore, our terror is around individualism. He adds: "For me, that story in the 50s and 60s is kind of totalitarian takeover is belongs to children. Farr went on to admit that he only saw Wolf Rilla's Village of the Damned around a decade ago, and that while he loved the "sensational" first half, he wasn't convinced by its second.
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