Romesh Ranganathan and Katherine Ryan play Deacon and Alison, a pair of St Albans suburbanites who, after years of failed IVF, nick £500k in Bitcoin from a louche acquaintance and discover that laundering cryptocurrency is harder than raising a toddler. The six-episode caper, written by Ranganathan and Benjamin Green, keeps the stakes domestic: clinic appointments, nosy neighbours and the terror of a plummeting crypto graph rather than shoot-outs, though Johnny Vegas’s shambolic fence Alfie supplies enough low-rent menace to keep the marriage vows wobbling.
Shot in Jersey and Hertfordshire through summer 2022, the series landed on Sky Comedy across the first fortnight of 2023 and was promptly buried in the Christmas-viewing backlog. Critics handed out polite three-star shrugs: The Guardian praised the leads’ “bone-dry chemistry” while noting the queasy leap from fertility angst to slapstick money-laundering, and the i conceded the plotting “throws up unexpected twists” even when the tone wobbles between rom-com and thriller.
Ranganathan’s production company Ranga Bee keeps the running time tight at twenty-eight minutes, letting the marital bickering punch harder than the crime mechanics; the final frame leaves the couple exactly where most parents end up, broke, breathless and somehow still together.
Production Details
Sky Comedy / 1 Season / 6 Episodes / 2023
Created by: Romesh Ranganathan
Writer(s): Meta Description: Romesh Ranganathan Benjamin Green
Producer(s): Caroline Norris
Main Cast
Romesh Ranganathan as Deacon
Katherine Ryan as Allison
Johnny Vegas as Alfie
