Lusus

What happens when your neuroses come to life? What shape will they take? Don’t open the door.

Noa (Patsy Ferran) a young Gen Z Urbanite, suffers from continual FOMO. There is always someone somewhere doing something better than the choice she has made. When trying to keep a birthday arrangement with her mum and sister and attend a fun night out with successful friends, her wish to be in two places at the same time turns deadly.CastEpisode 1 No - Patsy Ferran Jen - Susannah

Tanya (Ella Bruccoleri) is home looking after her baby daughter while her wife Kate (Karima McAdams) works overseas. Their plans to try for more children fuels Tanya’s anxieties about the plastic crisis. As her panic about their impact on the planet grows larger…. so does the fatberg beneath their flat. They learn the hard way that the waste they create will come back to them a

Magnus (Alistair Petrie) is a surgeon who secretly believes that if he doesn’t do his daily rituals, his patients will die. We follow Magnus through the habitual voicemail messages he leaves for his ex-girlfriend Julia, but with each day she doesn’t answer, his rituals are further interrupted. The mindfulness podcast he listens to, in a desperate attempt to change, isn’t help

Alfie (George Robinson) and Lily (Izuka Hoyle) are in the first flush of love, when Alfie - who is prone to hypochondria - develops a cough. His worries about the cancer that killed his father, Lily’s exes and the malevolent fortune cookie at his birthday meal, result in a lump in his throat. Lily’s efforts - and her hair – seem to be as much a part of the problem as the solu

Keri (Morfydd Clark) and Barden (Greg McHugh) have worked hard to buy their city centre flat with a bird’s eye view of the park. The only thing in the way of them throwing a successful housewarming for Keri’s judgemental workmates, are the bird droppings and squawks of the nesting magpies above their balcony. When Keri decides to take action, the birds retaliate in defence of t

Ben (David Mumeni) and his wife Cammie (Susannah Fielding) are a high-value high-spend couple, but Ben is worried that he won’t be making bonus this month. When he decides to short-change all the service workers and staff who help maintain his comfortable lifestyle, his kids (played by newcomers Henry and Laila Newton) are the ones who suffer. Will Ben listen to his son’s warni

The lonely life of Christopher (Ncuti Gatwa) is significantly improved when he rescues a puppy. When his neighbour Magnus (Alistair Petrie) threatens to report the dog, Christopher sinks into a depression. His feelings of being trapped turn physical, and he struggles to combat the almost paralysing aloneness and fear, that increases after discovering Magnus’s fate.CastChristopher

Desperate to hold off the aging process, twenty something Julia (Ella Bruccoleri) decides to get a radical new beauty treatment from a mysterious dentist’s office in the city. The next day an altered Julia (Tamar Baruch) goes about her day until she realises the drastic change that has occurred. When she returns to the dentist’s office her confusion and panic builds on what she