Geof and Gary are weapons development scientist with a camera, an unlimited budget, no regard for human life and a burning desire to be influencers. Let’s go!

Rounding out the first part of the initial release of the series with a pair of shorts, after how uneven those have proved to be, is a risky move but it pays off. A big part of that is Len Lawson and Toby Hargrave as the Stark Industries equivalents of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They’re bouncy, super enthusiastic puppies of men who love their work and are so endearingly excited about the cool stuff they get to do that you almost forget they’re killing people. Which is the point.

Their ‘toys’ are pleasingly nasty too, including controllable locust bombs and a device that allows for full ‘cerebral capture’ of a subject that they then explode. We see all of this, but it’s approached in a subtly different way I find interesting because I’m not entirely sure it’s intentional. The visuals on these two stories are either worse or slightly different in style to the others and that creates a sense of Aperture Science-esque unreality that helps the stories a lot. It’s not always an asset, but when it is, it helps sell the ethical vacuum the two scientists’ toybox is in. It also softens the blow of what they’re doing until they do it and that makes the violence hit all the harder.

So once again, these feel a little empty but, like ‘God’ and ‘Bad President’ that emptiness feels like the point and, here at least, the punchline and horror too.

Verdict: Surprising, funny and dark. 8/10

Alasdair Stuart