Primal All4

The wall-to-wall coverage of the state funeral last week left those looking for something else to watch to dig into streaming services’ back catalogues.

It was on All4 where I discovered a bizarre and utterly compelling oddity. In Primal, by genius animator Genndy Tartakovsky, a bereaved caveman teams up with a dinosaur to survive a primeval earth.

Over 20 short, dialogue-free episodes, the pair hunt or are hunted, whether it’s woolly mammoths or ape-men. For an animation it’s exceedingly violent and frankly quite weird, but also a masterful exercise in thrilling action.