"He watched with admiration as a friend with a divining rod approached and re-approached some ancient stones near but, crucially not actually part of the historic Avebury site of neolithic monuments. I dread to think how long he'd be here doing that, Cooper/Kurtan whispered to camera. He's light years ahead of his time. Then a quintessentially Kurtanish worried pause. Or light years behind his time."
"So I welcomed the chance to dwell with him awhile again in Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's NightWatch, a slice of Halloween schedule-filler in which he and Daisy who plays Kurtan's more, uh, limited cousin Kerry in the sitcom spend the night in different spooky locations in the hope of being visited by ghosts, an ambition they have shared since their Ouija board-playing games as children."
Charlie Cooper's on-screen persona frequently blends indistinguishably with his off-screen self, creating uncertainty about where performance ends and personhood begins. His most famous creation, Kurtan, embodies a comic, often bewildered sensibility that can appear in real-world encounters. Cooper and his sister Daisy May revisit folkloric settings and haunted locations in NightWatch, spending nights in the hope of encountering ghosts. Both siblings show a patient tolerance for chaotic moments and a fondness for odd local customs. The series mixes folk-horror curiosity with gently unsettling comedy and familial chemistry rooted in childhood shared interests like Ouija-board play.
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