Limited series
The Hounds Of Asterisk
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Hounds Of Asterisk actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Hounds Of Asterisk reads strongest on Cliffhanger Intensity, Humour and Serialized.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
When lonely remote worker Geoff Bream decides to ‘ethically’ source an exotic dog off of the internet, what follows is an unreasonable spiral from his most mundane anxieties into a dark and perplexing reckoning.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Darryl ShawWriter
Direction
- Darryl ShawDirector
Where to watch
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