Have you been watching BBC2's three-part miniseries STAG? It finished last weekend, so I've reviewed the whole run over at Frame Rated.
There's a long tradition of stories about groups of people being hunted and killed, one by own, by a mystery assailant (most owing a debt to Agatha Christie's 1939 novel And Then There Were None, maybe a few to 1987's Predator). There’s an even longer real-life tradition of soon-to-be-married men being thrown raucous parties, to celebrate their final days of bachelordom. Combine the two and you have BBC2's three-part comedy-drama Stag, about a group of Englishmen on a weekend trip of drinking and deer-stalking in the Scottish Highlands, only to find themselves as the prey. Continue reading...
