With everyone in the festive spirit and craving a bit of feel-good family telly, now's the perfect time for... Watership Down?
Based on the book by Richard Adams, the original 1978 animated film already has a reputation for seeming like a child-friendly tale about talking rabbits, yet actually being a nightmarish exploration of existential despair and mass slaughter.
The new version stars X-Men's James McAvoy as Hazel who puts together a ragtag band of rabbits when they are forced to flee their warren in search of safety and a new home.
The two-part mini series begins with Hazel's brother Fiver (Nicholas Hoult) having a terrifying vision of the destruction of the rabbits' home – and let's just say that things go downhill from there, and not all of the rabbits make it to the end.
Some viewers more used to the heart-warming glitterfest of Strictly Come Dancing on their Saturday nights thought Watership Down was an unusual piece of festive TV scheduling:
And it wasn't just children at risk of being traumatised by the animated mini-series...
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But while many viewers were worried about letting their kids watch the new Watership Down, others were rubbing their hands together at the thought of passing the rabbit-related emotional scars onto a new generation:
And it wasn't just the dark themes of Watership Down that some viewers took issue with.
The quality of the animation was also a common cause for complaint on Twitter, particularly because the rabbits actually looked a lot more like hares.
Watership Down will conclude on Sunday, December 23. Netflix will distribute the series elsewhere in the world.
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