Hunderby, DVD review - Telegraph Hunderby is quite something. The pet project of Julia Davis (who brought us the unnerving Nighty Night), it's beautifully odd, deliciously dark, and played absolutely straight. The seven-part comedy series is a riff on Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and features the edgy black humour that has become Davis" trademark. Shipwrecked maiden Helene (Alexandra Roach) is washed up on the beach of an English coastal village in 1831 and saved by Doctor Foggerty (Rufus Jones). But the good doctor, who falls in love with her, is thwarted by widowed pastor Edmund (Alex MacQueen). After a pitiful amount of wooing, they are wed and return to Edmund's home, Hunderby Hall, run by housekeeper Dorothy (Julia Davis) who is obsessed with her master's first dead wife. But the sweet Helene is struggling to keep her own past a secret and the final episode ends in one big farcical mess. The production values are sumptuous, from the painterly exterior scenes to the dark interiors. Rather than doing a genre spoof, Davis has created a handsome and also highly twisted gothic romance - bear in mind that some scenes may test the taste of many viewers.