Tomorrow Never Knows

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Posted on: November 29, 2009

Posted in: Animation, Drama, Fiction, Puppetry, Sci Fi, Video

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What if Gerry Anderson had a dark — very dark mind you — sense of humor?

Then Tomorrow Never Knows may have been his brainchild. As far as this reviewer knows TNK is the only Supermarionation web show out there, complete with model-wideshots and live-action closeups.

Completely in black and white with a 60s sci-fi feel, this dark story follows the life of a hapless Nobody who becomes the executioner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary of the future. As he becomes accustomed to his job and the ‘terminating’ it entails, he grows more distant from his wife, and then…

Oh darn it, I almost spoiled it. Suffice it to say the story remains as black and white as its coloration and reminds strongly of one of the dark short stories you’d hear on old radio plays such as X-Minus-One and Dimension X. It is interspersed with unexplained random messages by a big-brother type overlord announcing commercial breaks and obedience and psychedelic 3D title animations that seem to bare no connection to the actual story. I’ll leave it to the creators to explain that.

The show is certainly unusual. The look of the puppets is a bit disturbing but unique, and the setting anything but comedic, yet touching. It is only 3 parts — a chopped short film — but the dark tale it tells does make you think about how far an individual can go and forget his own conscience.