Director Philip Barantini is known for the British TV show Boiling Point. Here, he's made one of the best Tubi originals I've seen, a tense thriller that feels like it could be happening right now.
Harri (Chaneil Kular) leaves London to dog-sit the family dog Flynn when his parents go on vacation. He doesn't pay attention to much -- he's an animator so he devotes his mind to one thing at a time -- and is shocked when a friend calls to tell him he nearly missed a bombed on the tube. When a camera image of the suspect who set the bomb goes viral, even Harri's girlfriend jokes that it looks like him. Even worse, an old school friend posts a message that she feels proves that Harri is the terrorist.
This is how easily this happens. Harri isn't a foreigner. He's lived in London his whole life. He just looks different.
And it gets worse.
Harry is a British citizen of South Asian descent, but he's brown. To anyone watching him -- even neighbors of his parents who have known him his whole life -- he's the other, an enemy, someone to fear. The tension builds as every message Harri reads paints him as a criminal. Even calls to the police and visits to a kindly old lady next door become nightmarish mirror sides of real life. Then the vigilantes come for him and invade his parent's home.
Writers Barnaby Boulton and James Cummings have crafted a fable of how far paranoia and the bubble of doing your own research and "I'm just saying, but..." can go when pointed at a target. Kular is really great in this, an everyman faced with a night of terror that not every man would have to live through.
Harri (Chaneil Kular) leaves London to dog-sit the family dog Flynn when his parents go on vacation. He doesn't pay attention to much -- he's an animator so he devotes his mind to one thing at a time -- and is shocked when a friend calls to tell him he nearly missed a bombed on the tube. When a camera image of the suspect who set the bomb goes viral, even Harri's girlfriend jokes that it looks like him. Even worse, an old school friend posts a message that she feels proves that Harri is the terrorist.
This is how easily this happens. Harri isn't a foreigner. He's lived in London his whole life. He just looks different.
And it gets worse.
Harry is a British citizen of South Asian descent, but he's brown. To anyone watching him -- even neighbors of his parents who have known him his whole life -- he's the other, an enemy, someone to fear. The tension builds as every message Harri reads paints him as a criminal. Even calls to the police and visits to a kindly old lady next door become nightmarish mirror sides of real life. Then the vigilantes come for him and invade his parent's home.
Writers Barnaby Boulton and James Cummings have crafted a fable of how far paranoia and the bubble of doing your own research and "I'm just saying, but..." can go when pointed at a target. Kular is really great in this, an everyman faced with a night of terror that not every man would have to live through.