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Asylum: Episode 1: Strange Bedfellows

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Episode 1: Strange Bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows

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After a year in the embassy Dan is bored, depressed and has no hope of getting out.

Comedy about a whistleblower and an internet pirate trapped together in a London embassy. After a year in the El Rican embassy, Dan is bored and depressed.

After a year in the El Rican embassy under the threat of extradition to America, Dan is bored, depressed and has little hope of getting out - his only chance is to push his case in an interview with the Guardian. The embassy staff are struggling to attract people to the annual embassy ball, as Dan is old news and nobody wants to come. Rafael decides to offer sanctuary to another international fugitive, a childlike, internet pirate called Ludo Backslash.

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Two men are trapped together under the threat of extradition in a London embassy.

Comedy series in which a whistleblower and an internet pirate find themselves trapped together under the threat of extradition in the London embassy of a fictional Latin American country.

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