Phoo Action

The new BBC Three series based on characters designed by cartoonist extraordinaire Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz, Tank Girl, etc) featured in the strip ‘Get The Freebies.’ In the program Whitey Action and Terry Foo team up to form an unlikely crime-fighting duo in order to thwart The Freebies Gang in a strange London of 2012 after the assassination of the Queen. I’m not sure if it’s a great show, but it is the most accurate attempt at re-creating the art and madness in Hewlett’s art thus far.

It’s a mish-mash of mixed up images and pop culture references (’all your base belong to us’ appears in a news broadcast) that has garnered a mixed reception from the press.

But it makes for a great trailer!