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This psychological thriller might be set in an office, but it is so much more than your average workplace drama. In Severance, the main characters work for a mysterious company called Lumon, who have enormous, sparse headquarters with retro tech and creepy art. But that's not the worst of it. The central team here – and many of Lumon's employees – have undergone a procedure called severance, which is when you are divided into two selves, one inside work and one outside work– meaning that when you're in the outside world you can't remember anything that happens at work, and when you're at work, you have no recollection of your outside life.

Back on my bike, I passed sheep clip-clopping along the shore. Each animal in the 2,000-strong flock is individually owned, but the flock as a whole is communally farmed, and it's been done this way for centuries. According to the Orkney Sheep Foundation, they're the only domesticated sheep in Scotland still under a communal system of farming, whereby each shepherd keeps an eye on them as they make their way around the shore. "They run as a flock, so it's a community effort to manage them as a whole," Woodbridge said.