A struggling taxi driver is offered a free place for his ageing mother in a mysterious nursing home for the super-rich.

With the passing of Inside Number 9, it was a bonus to have a new anthology series on Netflix to get my teeth into, and even more of a bonus that it hails from Indonesia, a country with a film and TV industry I know nothing about.

Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams kicks off with Old House, proving the ancient adage that there’s no such thing as a free place in a luxury care home. While the Get Out style story is easily predictable from a few minutes in, it’s confidently executed, with an engaging central performance from Ario Bayu as Panji the conflicted taxi driver torn between stark economic reality and filial duty. In that regard, while I sense the story is exploiting specific Indonesian tropes around maternal respect, the dilemmas explored are universal ones faced increasingly by ageing populations around the world.

Verdict: While some of the plotting was overly schematic, reliant on clumsy info-dumps, overall this season opener is an engaging watch, and with each Nightmare/Daydream billed as a discrete tale in its own right, but with the promise that their stories are interconnected, leading to a thrilling denouement, I guess I’m in for the duration. 6/10

Martin Jameson

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