Joe Jackson once sang “Pretty women walking with gorillas down my street” in his hit song Is She Really Going Out With Him?. But little did he know how prescient that sentence would be 32 years after its release. Before his head was remodelled into a lump of bloody meat, he copped an eyeful of athletic daddy’s girl Jessica. Instantly linking the two events, he tries to warn the lovestruck Simon away from her, which leads to tension between them. Meanwhile, Kelly meets someone new. Shy awkward fugitive Bruno, who doesn’t have a dishonest thought in his head and there’s an instant animal attraction between them. Though she seems to not notice his love of fruit or prehensile grip on building walls. Richard Riddell as Gorilla turned human Bruno, brings the right amount of sensitivity to his part, portraying him as a gentle lovelorn giant. And Zawe Ashton is convincingly nervous around Simon as their romance starts to blossom. The tension between Simon and Nathan, as the former starts to assert himself and the latter feels his position compromised, is well handled instead of overdone. And it’s impossible not to have your heart melted a little bit when they reunite at the end. You can’t help but feel a bit sorry for Nathan, though, seeing him let down gently by Kelly for a bloke who used to eat his own excrement. And as the gang down cans of beer in the final shot, Nathan exclaims, “I think it might take more than you getting laid to make you a superhero,” to Simon, unaware how prescient that sentence will be. You can read our review of episode 4 here. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here.
