There's never any doubt Dr Rob Chance (Alistair Petrie) is a predator and scammer. The red flags come thick and fast from the outset of this intriguingly titled BBC dramedy, as the self-styled ecopreneur and head of "disruptive exploration" climate organisation Kangerlussuaq Climate Academy launches his latest campaign.
He's preening, oily, snobby and flirtatious, a showman who oozes confidence and a taste for the finer things in life. And that's well before we get to the moment when he is seen watching Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in a scene from the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction. Watching Rob howl with laughter and glee as Douglas and Close sadistically hoist each other to still-greater levels of torment and humiliation says much about him, and points to the larger ambition of The Following Events Are Based On a Pack of Lies.