HAPPY!

This anarchic - and flat-out banana's - Netflix comic adaptation is something of a Frankenstein: a crime/noir/fantasy/black-as-pitch comedy based on the four-issue run created by comic's writer extraordinaire Grant Morrison and artist Darick Robertson. Brian Taylor (one of the co-directors of the bonkers Jason Statham film's Crank and Crank 2) serves as Director for five of the eight episodes.

The plot revolves around a decrepit and disgraced top cop, Detective Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni), an actor best known from Law and order SVU, though he's also popped up in True Blood and Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer. Here, he plays a law enforcement pariah, who spends his time drinking heavily and abusing a variety of people and illicit substances, as well as working as a hit-man to earn some walking around money. During a shootout with some mobsters, Nick has a massive coronary event and despite all the odds, survives. When he awakes, he sees a small, blue, winged unicorn named Happy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) which apparently only he can see. Happy explains he is the imaginary friend of a little girl named Hailey, who has recently been kidnapped by a deranged man dressed as Santa Claus. Nick begrudgingly agrees to save Hailey, with the help of Happy, thus forging some sort of demented path to redemption, if it could be called that.

It’s made by SyFy Channel - in a co-production with Netflix. Syfy has renewed the series for a second season. It's rated MA - and there’s a substantial amount of drug use and characters shuffling off this mortal coil. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you are in the mood for a darkly comic, bloodily anarchic and insane head-cracker of cartoony proportions, this is your ticket.