FILM

Byron & Shelley: Illuminati Detectives is a pilot episode for a TV series which imagines the Romantic poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelly as sex crazed, drug-addled undercover agents of a secret society dedicated to wiping out magic and superstition by any means necessary. The story takes place on the shores of Lake Geneva, which are gripped by a gothic mystery: has a local man been turned to stone by a Sapphic sex demon? Byron & Shelley is a weird story about parallel dimensions, the specter of bleeding-edge surveillance technology, the role of poetry in class warfare, and the limits of Enlightenment thinking at the end of the world.