Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC)

Dissatisfied in her marriage and lacking confidants, Nicole keeps having flashbacks to an horrific accident in which she lost someone she loved. She strikes up a friendship with newcomer Jen, who has a troubled background and is not quite what she seems. As the short series unfolds, we discover more about each woman’s secrets, eliciting both sympathy and condemnation. We also follow Nic’s discovery of the fate of her missing cat, a tale that travels the gamut from comedy to horror. The tone gets darker with each revelation and sympathies shift and slowly dissipate until the final shock twist ending. Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli co-wrote this disturbing tragi-comedy in which they play the damaged and damaging lead characters. There will apparently be a second season, although it is difficult to imagine where it could go.

Russian Doll (Netflix)

Nadia is celebrating her 36th birthday at her friend’s New York loft apartment. Leaving the party to search for her missing cat she is hit by a taxi and killed, only to find herself back at the party, living the same night over again. This keeps happening; only the timing and mode of her death are subject to change. As she starts to realise what is happening to her Nadia moves from denial to investigation, trying to figure out why and how she might stop it. Along the way she gets to know her friends better, meets some new ones – but will she ever find her cat? Meeting uptight Alan, who seems to be in the same predicament, changes the game as together they search for answers to ending the time loop they are caught in. With obvious parallels to Groundhog Day, Russian Doll is also analogous to an old school, platform video game – no surprise as Nadia is a game developer. Blackly funny, sometimes moving, Russian Doll is a tribute to friendship as much as anything. Natasha Lyonne teeters on the edge of over-the-top as Nadia, held back from the brink by a solid supporting cast and a mostly tight script.