What Pemberton and Shearsmith capture so well is the characterisation even before a word is uttered.
Shearsmith's, Maxwell is fussy, tidy wanting to go to sleep as he has an important interview the next morning. Pemberton's Jorg is a slob. Drunk, uncouth, loud.
They are just two of the passengers on a sleeper train travelling through Europe. A married middle aged English couple are on their way to their daughter's wedding in France. An australian backpacker is hoping to have a frisky time with a guy she has just picked up. All of them making noise, upsetting Maxwell who just wants a good night sleep.
Suddenly one of the passenger already in bed is dead as he drops out and lands on one of the passengers. We have not seen him before and the passengers are reluctant to stop the train as some of them know they will face delays.
What starts off as a humorous episode of a man being constantly disturbed in a sleeping compartment takes a disturbing twist with then another layer added on. Wonderful.
Shearsmith's, Maxwell is fussy, tidy wanting to go to sleep as he has an important interview the next morning. Pemberton's Jorg is a slob. Drunk, uncouth, loud.
They are just two of the passengers on a sleeper train travelling through Europe. A married middle aged English couple are on their way to their daughter's wedding in France. An australian backpacker is hoping to have a frisky time with a guy she has just picked up. All of them making noise, upsetting Maxwell who just wants a good night sleep.
Suddenly one of the passenger already in bed is dead as he drops out and lands on one of the passengers. We have not seen him before and the passengers are reluctant to stop the train as some of them know they will face delays.
What starts off as a humorous episode of a man being constantly disturbed in a sleeping compartment takes a disturbing twist with then another layer added on. Wonderful.