Be prepared: It goes well beyond "dark comedy" and into "grotesque."

No spoilers from me; I'll just say that I am very much not a mainstream viewer and even so, I wish that either I hadn't seen this series or that I'd been prepared for how disturbing and grotesque it became by the end.

I've not seen other work written by Julia Davis (tho I've liked her in other people's work), so I can't say whether this was similar to, or more extreme than, Nighty Night or Hunderby.

If you're prepared for something that becomes somewhat implausible and uncomfortably dark, then you might like this -- but at least be prepared. The label dark comedy is inaccurate in its mildness.

(For the record, I consider John Waters movies to be dark comedies -- and I'm talking about the early, non-Hollywood ones. And they don't veer into the grotesque -- they firmly start out there, so you know what you're in for. Also, I would cautiously say that Six Feet Under was a dark comedy. So I'm not unable or unwilling to watch disturbing fare. But in this case, there was such imbalance between where the series started and where it ended; if nothing else, to me the radical mood shift suggested a little laziness or moderate uncertainty on Davis's part.)

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."