Kindly Doomed: Your face is on forty bus shelters, and everybody in London thinks you are in love. Day 30 of Single Nation, an animated dystopian comedy about dating, loneliness and a fascist government that wants to force men to date women even though the social contract is one sided in women's favour.
The Department's poster made you famous overnight. Strangers stop you at bus stops, the office claps when you walk in, and Mum has framed it. Then, at eleven at night, a heavier envelope lands on the mat: pink, gold edges, a silver strip along the flap. A text arrives from an unknown number. Do not open it. Three a.m., a laundrette on Hoe Street.
Single Nation is a fictional series. The Partnership Act, the Department and every character are invented. The real research woven into the story is listed below. Sources (the real facts in this episode)
- Robert Zajonc (1968), "Attitudinal effects of mere exposure", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: the mere exposure effect.
- Horton & Wohl (1956), "Mass communication and para-social interaction", Psychiatry.
- Cohabitation law, England and Wales: there is no "common-law marriage"; couples who live together get no automatic rights as a couple.
- UK fire and rescue services' tumble dryer advice: clean the lint filter after every use.
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