A stay-at-home housewife is looking forward to acquiring a heavily marketed device that promises to make everything better forever, but the product has an unsavoury truth.

By far the most bonkers show this year, this futuristic tale that pokes fun at consumerism gets a special thumbs up for featuring an unexpected and hugely welcome connection to a classic 1962 Twilight Zone episode.

Written and directed by Osgood Perkins (son of Anthony), Gretchen Mol is Mrs Warren, quietly grieving for her stillborn child in a world of sterile colours, cookie cutter houses and constant advertising. Her husband (Gil Bellows, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark) and son get pleasure in watching immolations and everyone is clamouring to buy ‘the next big thing’.

It’s a utopia and dystopia at the same time, the current must-have necessity being ‘The Egg’ – the ultimate answer to your dreams – and everyone is excited about picking theirs up at the allotted time. Mrs Warren is having strange dreams and creates a basic but ingenious way of discovering what’s going on. Yes, it’s an alien invasion, and we’re all going to die horribly – I’ll let you discover what the retro link is.

Verdict: Witty dialogue, hammered home with no finesse, and an ending that proves sometimes we just can’t help ourselves. It’s the most ‘out there’ episode of this second season, proving that there’s no end to the topics and styles the show can embrace. 8/10

Nick Joy