She visits Dyson (where she accidentally utters “hoover” as a verb) to learn about the art of impellers and the history of the earliest dust collectors, which were nearly the size of a car. The affable Hannah Fry finds herself sucked inside the world of vacuum cleaners this week, a household staple that is also a marvel of appliance science. Prime Video’s own documentary on O’Sullivan follows tomorrow (Thursday).

He sits down with journalist Amol Rajan for a candid chat about his life and career. There are few sporting personalities as interesting as Ronnie O’Sullivan, the snooker master famed for his perfectionism, as well as his struggles with drugs and depression. Plus, there’s a wonderful voice cast, including Helena Bonham Carter. Although mostly live-action, it is the gorgeously rendered animated sequences that stand out. This charming one-off adaptation of Margery Williams’s children’s story – about a toy rabbit who wishes to be real – is cosy festive fare. It’s a story told with a playful wink perfect for Mad Men’s Jon Hamm, whose colourful North Dakota Sheriff Roy Tillman shows off his comedic chops. The fifth series of Fargo, the anthology series inspired by the 1996 Coen Brothers film, follows Dot (Juno Temple), a Midwestern housewife with a secret knack for killing people. Just take the task in which they must carve a shape out of a piece of honeycomb without breaking it: a sequence as riveting in reality as it is in fiction.

Yet it is the games themselves that sell it. Not to mention a deliciously hateful villain in the shape of one obnoxious American bully. There are shades of The Traitors in how the contestants betray each other. The whole thing is ludicrously crass, but undeniably compelling. Here they have black ink packs that explode on their chest. In the original, anyone who moves is shot. It begins with a staggering 456 players (competing for a staggering $4.65 m), who are cut down by games such as Red Light, Green Light, where they must run towards a giant doll and freeze before she turns her head. It is an allegory that seems to have flown over the heads of Netflix, who have now brought the contest to life as a lavish 10-part reality/game show. Dazzlingly stylised, masterfully plotted, it was intended by creator Hwang Dong-hyuk as a critique of cut-throat capitalism. In 2021, Squid Game, the South Korean drama that centred on desperate people playing a series of deadly children’s games for very big money, became a worldwide phenomenon.

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