What are the best episodes of Shifty?

The best rated episodes of Shifty are: Part Three - I Love a Millionaire - S1E3 rated 9.0, Part One - The Land of Make Believe - S1E1 rated 8.8

What are the worst episodes of Shifty?

The lowest rated episodes of Shifty are: Part Four - The Grinder - S1E4 rated 8.0, Part Five - The Democratisation of Everything - S1E5 rated 8.0

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Best Episodes of Shifty

Part Three - I Love a Millionaire
S1 Ep3
9.0
14th Jun 2025
Money replaces ideology as a way of ordering Britain. It was supposed to make things rational. But the money got mixed with old forces from the past. And wasn't as predictable as it seemed. Shoes from Russell & Bromley. Mrs Thatcher's luminous earrings. Dolly the horse. Liberal intellectuals who know their power is over. Leeks by moonlight. The Duke of Westminster. The Bitch. Modern art. Morrissey’s nostalgia. Make-up by Rimmel. Dodi Fayed. Ken Dodd's suitcase. Data extraction. The first Islamist group. The covenants of old English power. MDMA. Mrs Thatcher reads a poem. White rasta.
Part One - The Land of Make Believe
S1 Ep1
8.8
14th Jun 2025
The dream world that Mrs Thatcher promised. And the ghosts that came back to disrupt it. When power begins to shift in society, everything becomes unstable, exciting and frightening. Gay Scottish Disco. Intersex dog. Mrs Thatcher. Encounter group. Ghosts of the Empire. Jimmy Savile. The Cheese and Onion computer. Video dating. Ian Curtis. Monetarism. Dead pilot. Stephen Hawking and Black Holes. National Front. Fat-shaming ventriloquist. Dub clash sound system. Party elephant. W****r on the line. Racist attacks. Bucks Fizz.

Worst Episodes of Shifty

Part Four - The Grinder
S1 Ep4
8.0
14th Jun 2025
Those in power begin to distrust you. Once you were a heroic individual. Now you are a creature of HR. And the prime minister is just a man in blue underpants. UFO over Surrey. Water is contaminated. Pigs walking into walls. Traitors in Downing Street. Night sweats. Ram-raiding Currys. ERM underwear. Dreaming of Sutton Coldfield. Nuns play ping pong. Sod Off. HR comes to the Zoo. The official report insists it’s anxiety, not water. Jane Hawking hates her husband's rational smile. Cleaning up dragon shit. Privatised companies play mathematical games. The rabbits are not anxious. But there may be alternative dimensions where they are. The politicians lose control of the economy.
Part Five - The Democratisation of Everything
S1 Ep5
8.0
14th Jun 2025
Who needs politicians in a magical world of free individuals? So they give away their power. But Alexander McQueen sees what is really happening. The monstrous rise of the handbag. The Prince of Wales and his hidden smutty word. Christian Heavy Metal. Sleazy politicians. Imaginary Time. Mohamed al Fayed. King Rat. Censorship in Bollywood. The disappeared from the mental hospital. Highland Rape. Labour gives the last real power away. Sugababes. The pool, the sauna and the lifestyle. Artists become agents for property developers. There are Black Holes in your head. Factories close in the North East. A scanner from Maplin. The empty zones in the Dome. Toad in the Hole. Margaret Thatcher's handbag. The hidden backbeat. Subprime. The fake show at the end of the century. And the real one.

Shifty Episode Guide

Part One - The Land of Make Believe
S1 Ep1
8.8
14th Jun 2025
The dream world that Mrs Thatcher promised. And the ghosts that came back to disrupt it. When power begins to shift in society, everything becomes unstable, exciting and frightening. Gay Scottish Disco. Intersex dog. Mrs Thatcher. Encounter group. Ghosts of the Empire. Jimmy Savile. The Cheese and Onion computer. Video dating. Ian Curtis. Monetarism. Dead pilot. Stephen Hawking and Black Holes. National Front. Fat-shaming ventriloquist. Dub clash sound system. Party elephant. W****r on the line. Racist attacks. Bucks Fizz.
Part Two - Suspicion
S1 Ep2
8.6
14th Jun 2025
On your own in a world of individual freedom. It's wonderful. But can you trust the old institutions? Suspicion begins to grow. Taxidermist and owl. Rupert Murdoch and the Royal Family. Mrs Thatcher and the Yorkshire Ripper. Avant-garde hair. Video vigilantes. Inflatable giraffe. Fairlight sampler. Square-dance in Worthing. Paedophile spy. Skinhead poem. The corrupt British establishment. Relax. Dame Edna and the Freemasons. Shoot to Kill. Two policeman interrogating a rape victim. Penguins. How to manipulate interviewees on TV. Remixes. The past becomes untrustworthy
Part Three - I Love a Millionaire
S1 Ep3
9.0
14th Jun 2025
Money replaces ideology as a way of ordering Britain. It was supposed to make things rational. But the money got mixed with old forces from the past. And wasn't as predictable as it seemed. Shoes from Russell & Bromley. Mrs Thatcher's luminous earrings. Dolly the horse. Liberal intellectuals who know their power is over. Leeks by moonlight. The Duke of Westminster. The Bitch. Modern art. Morrissey’s nostalgia. Make-up by Rimmel. Dodi Fayed. Ken Dodd's suitcase. Data extraction. The first Islamist group. The covenants of old English power. MDMA. Mrs Thatcher reads a poem. White rasta.
Part Four - The Grinder
S1 Ep4
8.0
14th Jun 2025
Those in power begin to distrust you. Once you were a heroic individual. Now you are a creature of HR. And the prime minister is just a man in blue underpants. UFO over Surrey. Water is contaminated. Pigs walking into walls. Traitors in Downing Street. Night sweats. Ram-raiding Currys. ERM underwear. Dreaming of Sutton Coldfield. Nuns play ping pong. Sod Off. HR comes to the Zoo. The official report insists it’s anxiety, not water. Jane Hawking hates her husband's rational smile. Cleaning up dragon shit. Privatised companies play mathematical games. The rabbits are not anxious. But there may be alternative dimensions where they are. The politicians lose control of the economy.
Part Five - The Democratisation of Everything
S1 Ep5
8.0
14th Jun 2025
Who needs politicians in a magical world of free individuals? So they give away their power. But Alexander McQueen sees what is really happening. The monstrous rise of the handbag. The Prince of Wales and his hidden smutty word. Christian Heavy Metal. Sleazy politicians. Imaginary Time. Mohamed al Fayed. King Rat. Censorship in Bollywood. The disappeared from the mental hospital. Highland Rape. Labour gives the last real power away. Sugababes. The pool, the sauna and the lifestyle. Artists become agents for property developers. There are Black Holes in your head. Factories close in the North East. A scanner from Maplin. The empty zones in the Dome. Toad in the Hole. Margaret Thatcher's handbag. The hidden backbeat. Subprime. The fake show at the end of the century. And the real one.

This series shows in a new and imaginative way how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance. Together they undermined one of the fundamental structures of mass democracy - that it could create a shared idea of what was real. And as that fell apart, with it went the language and the ideas that people had turned to for the last 150 years to make sense of the world they lived in.