It’s Christmas Eve 2005, and the Prescott family has gathered for the presumed last Christmas celebration of family patriarch Douglas Prescott, former MP and a man of vast wealth and influence. Predominantly out of a sense of obligation (or unwillingness to get cut out of Dougie’s will), they’ve decided that they’re willing to put up with one another for a whole weekend before they’ll scatter back out into the world. Question is: will all of them live to see the end of it?
Episode 1 of 4
Content Warnings: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Alcohol/Drug Use, Profanity
George Prescott is Steve
Jaime Prescott is Roy
Susanne Prescott is Harm
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