Auf BBC Four ist die Serie »Asylum« gestartet: eine auf drei Folgen angelegte Sitcom über einen in der “El Rican”-Botschaft in London festsitzenden Whistleblower und den deutschen “childlike, internet pirate called Ludo Backslash”:

»Conceived by Kayvan Novak (Facejacker) and Tom Thostrup and written by Thom Phipps and Peter Bowden, Asylum is a satirical comedy about a government whistle-blower and a millionaire internet entrepreneur trapped together in a London embassy.«

Etwas mehr Hintergrund zu Charakteren und Story gibt es in diesem Artikel, der auch vielfältige aktuelle Bezüge zeigt:

Dan (Ben Miller) has been living in the El Rican embassy for a year after leaking details online of CIA torture. He hates being compared with Assange (“Don’t mention that hack”) and he’s miffed that he has been overshadowed by the white-haired Australian. For the El Ricans, meanwhile, any hopes they had of leverage on the world stage with Dan in their midst have faded as his star has dimmed, and the ambassador’s oily son, Rafael (Novak, pictured below) wants him to leave. As the ambassador’s daughter Rosa (Yasmine Akram) says of Dan: “Last year he was hot shit. Now he’s room-temperature shit. Which is shit.”

As Dan’s usefulness has waned, so the El Rican welcome has diminished, and now his room is the embassy’s broom cupboard. Into the fray comes the ludicrous Ludo Backslash (Dustin Demri-Burns), an irritating young German web entrepreneur who set up an illegal downloading site and is wanted by the authorities; Ludo, the creators are happy to say, was inspired by Kim Dotcom. Ludo couldn’t be more different to the serious and beige-cardiganed Dan, who for all his faults has at least been guided by principle. Ludo dresses like something vomited out in the Ibiza rave scene and his actions have been guided purely by profit.

Theoretisch kann man Folge 1 »Strange Bedfellows« schon sehen – wenn man jetzt in UK wäre (oder es so aussähe). Die nächste Folge erscheint am 16. Februar.

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