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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC iPlayer
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 5
Original Language EN
Creator Adam Curtis
Shifty (2025)
Created by Adam Curtis
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Ended Series Status:
This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Synopsis
When power begins to shift in society, everything becomes unstable, exciting and frightening. Living in Britain at the end of the 20th century.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
5 Episodes E1 Part One - The Land of Make Believe
The dream world that Mrs Thatcher promised. And the ghosts that came back to disrupt it.
E2 Part Two - Suspicion
On your own in a world of individual freedom. It's wonderful. But can you trust the old institutions? Suspicion begins to grow.
E3 Part Three - I Love a Millionaire
Money replaces ideology as a way of ordering Britain. It was supposed to make things rational. But the money got mixed with old forces from the past. And wasn't as predictable as it seemed.
E4 Part Four - The Grinder
Those in power begin to distrust you. Once you were a heroic individual. Now you are a creature of HR. And the prime minister is just a man in blue underpants.
E5 Part Five - The Democratisation of Everything
Who needs politicians in a magical world of free individuals? So they give away their power. But Alexander McQueen sees what is really happening. The monstrous rise of the handbag.