McKellen fares well and offers a steely charm and dry wit in the role and manages to evoke a certain mystery about Two's relationship to his son (yes, Number Two has an estranged son which makes it sound more like Home And Away than a ... Taking the idea of who is the watcher and who is the watched, there is also a bizarre soap called Wonkers that all the Villagers appear to be in thrall to. It's very reminiscent of the hyper-realist soap that's featured in The Truman ...
