Look at the DVD cover and you might get the idea that The Mule is a very bad comedy with jokes that only slightly rise above whoopee cushion level. Well, you’d be wrong…

It’s 1983. Ray Jenkins (Angus Sampson) is a slightly dimwitted dude who swallowed 20 condoms filled with heroin and is trying to smuggle them into Australia. When he’s detained by Australian Federal Police, he is however sharp enough to use a legal loophole that prevents the police from taking an x-ray. They can however keep Ray in custody for seven days and wait for… get ready… for the shit to hit the fan.

Chasing Shadows is a four-episode series from ITV about DS Stone (Reece Shearsmith), an antisocial prick who’s very good at finding patterns in human behavior. Unfortunately he’s not very good with other people. After being busted down from homicide to missing persons for telling the truth at a press conference, he finds himself teamed up with Ruth Hattersley (Alex Kingston), a single mom who has all the empathy that Stone lacks.

Falco (Sagamore Stévenin) is a young French police officer with a wife and a baby on the way. After a bust goes wrong, Falco ends up with a bullet in his head and lands in a coma. Two decades later he wakes up and against all odds, makes a complete recovery. A miracle, right? Yes, it is. But he quickly learns it’s also something of a poisoned gift when he finds out that his wife remarried and that he completely missed his daughter’s childhood.