Episode 24: Abigail's Party (1977) (featuring Will Steele)

Beverly and Laurence are hosting a little get together in order to get acquainted with their new neighbors, Angela and Tony, also inviting over the long-divorced Sue, to give her a place to be while her daughter Abigail hosts a party at her place.

That is the premise. And what follows is some of the most painfully awkward and banal conversation ever spoken on a television screen. For 100 minutes, you are trapped with these characters as they slowly morph in perception from being just painfully dull to quietly (or, for some, loudly) evil, but still evil in the most mundane, human sense of it.

And it's great. An early masterwork from Mike Leigh.