Grainne Humphreys

It's an actual hen, a real hen, not an animated hen, a real hen.

And you kind of follow it through.

It's beautifully shot.

You know, you kind of lean into following through the hen's eyes, the world around it and the people that it encounters and the people who are probably more animal like and kind of dangerous and dark and horrible to each other.

No, no, no, no.

it's not a kids film though I'd say it's more done from a kind of it has some dark moments in it very kind of like tricky difficult moments around human trafficking captivity again which probably resonate with the life of a hen but as a cinematic experience and as a genuinely unique thing I mean I was thinking of EO or Andrea Arnold's film Cow but it's very much its own thing and definitely something that you know go see it on the big screen

So ponies are persons of no interest.

So this is a Sky show, which I thought was a little bit jokey for the first couple of minutes.

It's set in 1977, Moscow.

It's about two women who are attached to way more dynamic men who are part of the American embassy.

kind of fighting the Cold War.

It's a kind of, yeah, it's basically no one will look at you.

No, you're completely unimportant.

And so very quickly, and I don't think it's a spoiler, both of them become kind of widows within about 15 minutes and suddenly try to stay, if you like, in Moscow as a way of finding out what happened to their husbands.

So this, I mean, I kind of compared it to Widows, the TV show meets Alias.

meets Cagney and Lacey.

There's this double act between these two women, completely different.

One speaks Russian, the other one's a firecracker with maybe two words of Russian, are kind of going undercover on behalf of the CIA to kind of infiltrate kind of Moscow in the 70s.

But it's really well cast.

Harriet Walter's in there.