By Jon Donnis
Sky has dropped the first teaser for The Death of Bunny Munro, a six-part limited series that brings Nick Cave's cult novel to the screen with Matt Smith stepping into the messy, magnetic lead role. It's the kind of project that instantly turns heads: BAFTA and Emmy nominations on the cast list, a creative team boasting the likes of Pete Jackson and Isabella Eklöf, and Cave himself not only executive producing but also reuniting with Warren Ellis to compose the score. That mix alone suggests this will be one of the most striking dramas of the year.
The story follows Bunny Munro, a Brighton-based beauty salesman who loses his wife to suicide and responds by hitting the road with his young son. What unfolds is part road trip, part cautionary tale, part fractured father-son drama. The teaser hints at the show's uneasy balance: Bunny throwing himself into womanising and self-destruction, while his son drifts further into conversation with his mother's ghost. Smith looks unflinching in the role, shifting between sleaze, grief, and flashes of vulnerability. It's a risky character to take on, but one that could easily define his career beyond the fantasy and sci-fi work he's best known for.
There's a distinctly raw energy in the way the series has been pitched. Brighton and the South Coast are front and centre, not as postcard backdrops but as faded, lived-in landscapes where Bunny's denial and Junior's awakening play out. It promises a story that is as jagged as it is tender, peeling back layers of masculinity and inheritance while never letting you forget the chaos at its core. With the combination of Cave's lyrical darkness, Ellis's music, and Smith's magnetism, The Death of Bunny Munro already feels set to be one of the year's boldest television events when it launches on Sky and NOW this November.
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