US, BBC 2 10pm, BBC iPlayer, written and directed by Jordan Peele.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001rjvp/us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peele

If you’ve a spare two hours and don’t mind watching a zombie movie, batter in. I was intrigued. I misread the premise was something to do with doppelgangers. Strictly speaking that’s true. A black and upper-middle-class family of dad, mom and their two children go on holiday to the beach.

They meet their demonic doppelgangers who come from a hole in the ground. They don’t dress identically, because they are all different sizes, but they wear the same reddish purple boiler suit. There must be a factory under the fairground where they live churning out boiler suits and doppelgangers. No small demonic guys pushing a pram because they must be able to wield outsize scissors and be able to stab their nemesis to death.

The reddish-purplish thread extends all the way across the United States. Doppelgangers are US endangering the land of the free. As we know every American citizen bears the right to arm himself with anything from an Uzi to an Aircraft Carrier. It’s in the American Constitution. The non-doppelganger good guys fight back with baseball bats and various chunks of wood and steel. Hmm so much for the right to bear arms. What’s the point of being American if you can’t shoot looters, especially if they look black?

I’ll leave that to the moron’s moronic Trump supporters to work through as they stew in prison. Their wacko leader, of course, advocated shooting shoplifters. He is his own evil doppelganger. Case closed. The evidence is here.  In another part of the beautiful American South the US authorities admit to jailing a pregnant woman for endangering her baby’s life. The wee girl admitted to have smoked a little weed before she got pregnant. Some things you can’t make up.  Just one of Trump’s random genius thoughts made state law. I checked he hadn’t written the script for this film. No wall to keep out illegals (they’d burrow under it). Not enough legal or illegal guns. Not so entertaining. God helps US. I think some bits are meant to be funny in a kickass way. Shocking!