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Capital (2015)

Capital poster
Directed by
Euros Lyn
Genre
drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of people living on a single street in South London start getting threatening postcards. The series follows how the rising value of their homes and the strange messages affect each resident's life.

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What happens

Capital is a British television adaptation of John Lanchester's novel Capital. It was originally broadcast as three one hour episodes and was later recut to four 45 minute episodes by Netflix. The series was written by Peter Bowker, directed by Euros Lyn and produced by Matt Strevens for Kudos Film & Television Company. The story centres on the residents of a road in South London as the value of each house in the street is approaching £3 million. They all begin to receive repeated postcards with the message "We want what you have". The first episode was broadcast on BBC One on 24 November 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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