James Walton

A bit of a mess: Channel 4’s Generation Z reviewed

Plus: a doc for more scholarly fans of horror on Sky Arts

It's fun to watch old troupers like Sue Johnston clearly enjoying the chance to screech away through spectacularly blood-stained lips. Image: Channel 4 / James Pardon 
issue 02 November 2024

In the second of this week’s two episodes of Generation Z (Sunday and Monday), a teenage girl called Finn wondered why her friend Kelly was so distracted and tearful. As a well-informed type, Finn applied the principle of Occam’s razor and decided that Kelly must be pregnant. In this case, though, the simplest explanation definitely wasn’t the right one.

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