The show dissecting daddy issues
NEW SERIES THE DEATH OF BUNNY MUNRO PROBES THE PERILS OF FATHERHOOD
WORDS LAURA VENNING
Drinks break: Bunny (Matt Smith) and Bunny Junior (Rafael Mathé);
A touch-up for Smith on set;
TO PARAPHRASE THE poet Philip Larkin, they fuck you up, your mum and, well, mostly your dad. As is the case in Sky’s dark and bawdy miniseries The Death Of Bunny Munro. Based on the novel by the musician and screenwriter Nick Cave, the ’00s-set show follows beauty salesman and Lothario Bunny (Matt Smith), who’s saddled with his sensitive nine-year-old son Bunny Junior (Rafael Mathé) after his wife dies by suicide.