Fresh Meat (Seasons 1–4)

Fresh Meat (2011) is a Channel 4 comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. Six students apply too late for halls and wind up sharing a run-down house on the edge of Manchester instead of living on campus.

The housemates are people who would never have picked each other. There's posh, insufferable JP (Jack Whitehall), anxious overthinker Kingsley, sharp and unpredictable Vod (Zawe Ashton), quiet Josie, and Scottish oddball Howard with his own rigid rules. First year at Manchester Medlock University turns into a mess of parties, doomed hook-ups, debt and exams nobody revised for.

The show comes from Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, the pair behind Peep Show and later Succession, which explains the blend of cruel jokes and real tenderness toward kids who grow up by getting everything wrong. If you've ever survived a first year away from home, the cringe lands hard. Stream every season of Fresh Meat online on iFILM.