Circus Season: Destination Royston Vasey (The League of Gentlemen)
Continuing a series of posts about TV episodes relating to the circus. Caution: This is about an episode depicting a character in black-face and may be distressing. The episode has been removed from Netflix for that reason. In fact let's not beat about the bush, The League of Gentlemen contains something to offend pretty much everyone, including little people, travellers, the Irish, toad lovers, you name it. I cannot believe that I have somehow never visited Royston Vasey on this blog before, although it's possibly just because I haven't been able to face trying to write about it. The League of Gentleman (which has been described as 'like watching Monty Python remake The Wicker Man from inside Alan Bennett's fever dream') is a very successful comedy series which basically pushes the envelope in every way conceivable, based in the strange town of Royston Vasey. In this episode the circus comes to town. One of the reasons I wanted to include this episode was that...