Everyone Else Burns is a British sitcom airing on Channel 4 in the UK and The CW in the US. It stars Simon Bird, Kate O'Flynn, Amy James-Kelly, and Lolly Adefope.
David is a Mancunian father involved in a deeply religious sect called the Order, but he's not gotten very far in it, as his own personal flaws keep holding him back. Meanwhile, his wife Fiona yearns to make money for herself, his daughter Rachel seeks to become a nurse, and his son Aaron... has issues.
This series contains examples of:
- Against My Religion: The Order forbids all kinds of things that outsiders take for granted, like caffeine, birthday parties, and foreign foods.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: One episode sees Fiona making an ass of herself in front of Elder Andrew while drunk.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Rachel is regularly mortified by her dad's antics, especially when he decides to sit in on a church lecture about sex.
- Creepy Child: Aaron acts like a small, highly-educated adult and draws highly-detailed scenes of violence in his free time.
- Ethical Slut: In the third episode, Rachel hangs out with an Order girl with much looser morals.
- Green-Eyed Monster: David's obsession with advancing in the Order is kickstarted after Andrew, one of the other parishioners, manages to become an Elder before he does.
- Holier Than Thou: The Order holds that they are the one true religion, and every other religious movement is wrong. David takes this to even further extremes in his zeal to rise up in the church; in the second episode, he steals a copy of one of the Order's oldest texts in the hopes of finding new ways to become even more pious.
- Never My Fault: The main reason why David is stuck is because he refuses to look at his own character flaws and instead blames everyone else for his setbacks.
- Stay in the Kitchen: The Order teaches women that their main ambition should be keeping up the home and raising children. Neither Fiona nor her daughter Rachel are particularly thrilled with this notion, as Fiona wants to start her own business and make her own money, while Rachel aspires to be a doctor.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Aaron has taken to making violent drawings of David dying in increasingly gruesome ways.
- You Need to Get Laid: In the third episode, Julia tries to gently push Rachel into doing something with Joshua in the hopes that she'll loosen up a bit.
