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A sci-fi concept receives a -ish remix in this sketchy but scruffily inventive Brit-com. Scott Haran plays Peter, a child chess prodigy turned office sad sack recruited as a ‘bystander’: an alt-dimensional angel tasked with guiding a subject's earthly life. His bond with recruiter Frank (Seann Walsh) adds -ish touches, which extend to writer/director Gabriel Foster Prior's colour/black-and-white images. Though stronger on set-up than story, Prior's mix of workplace comedy and self-help satire has style, charm and wit on its side.