Short films you finish in one sitting, each built around real decisions and mapped to nine civic domains, with credentials that travel with the learner. 4 are free to watch on ambivalence.app; the rest are included in a licence.
Now being written and shot. Episodes are announced as they are released.
Procurement, devolution, neighbourhood funding, reorganisation, planning and the right to challenge — set in the months they came into force, and closed by a finale that connects them.
30 April 2026, the morning after the first payments-compliance window closed. A procurement officer alone in a council office has twenty-four hours, one KPI rating, one journalist's email — and a public record to commit to, or not.
Canterbury, May 2026. Maya Hart runs the Wincheap community governance review while Kent reorganises around her. Guardians strike their poses — map, mug, bus-route memory — and one kitchen-table paragraph has to hold at four scales.
A reverse heist. Pauline Vasey — thirty years on the Gorse End market — has thirteen days to assemble a Neighbourhood Board the estate will believe in. The vault holds the one thing £20 million cannot buy: trust.
Why now · 284 Neighbourhood Boards now direct up to £20 million each.
Caldershire ceases to exist on 1 April 2028. Bridie Quinn, digital assurance lead, knows reorganisation is a migration — and migrations kill. A nature documentary in which 743 applications are the herd and vesting day is the river crossing.
Why now · East and West Surrey Councils go live on 1 April 2027 — the one reorganisation still crossing.
Nell Harker has a determination date for two hundred homes on a floodplain. The developer offers the new Nature Restoration Levy — one payment, certainty for everyone. The river needs something no pooled fund can buy. Two clocks: one in ink, one in water.
Why now · Natural England's first draft Environmental Delivery Plan, for Norfolk, went out to consultation in 2026.
The Hale Sker light, final season before automation. Principal keeper Agnes Roke must sign a petition she believes in and doubts. The letter before action is one page — and everything the watch is rides on it.
Why now · On 7 September 2026 the government put reorganisation under a rapid review, with no end date.
A delegation spends three days inside a council, assessing it against a charter it signed a generation ago and has largely forgotten. The visitors are not inspectors and not enemies — and their admiration is the problem.
The Season 2 finale. A decision made competently inside one service's rules becomes a consequence in another that never sees the cause — and the learner is asked to recognise their own pattern across the season.
Devolution, homelessness, transport, transformation, procurement, budgets, foresight and adult social care — each a story you finish in one sitting.
Civic action traced through a watershed — from committee-room ritual to the quiet continuity of community voice. Six scenes on devolution, systemic pressure, language and equity, asking where the real decision actually gets made.
A civic fable about the journey home. A key is forged the moment someone needs shelter — but before it can turn in any lock, it must pass through the queue, the desk, the system, the clock, and the reckoning.
Sam follows three lines across a city. Then the algorithm changes its mind — and teaches him, his partner Jess, and a transport planner named Aisha what a consultation response actually costs.
A net-zero dashboard freezes at sixty-seven percent. Davies and Sarah discover the 18-month wall between policy intent and resident reality — and the quiet revolt a good evidence log can start.
Jade Okafor has one mission: make the Procurement Act 2023 real inside a council that's still reading the safety instructions. A martial-arts boss progression through opacity, tick-box, lowest-price, silos — and the mirror.
Ren and Sol receive instruments that hum when pointed at assumptions. Four encounters — a Clockmaker, a Bridge-Keeper, a Children's Garden, a covered market — teach zero-based budgeting as an act of perception, not austerity.
Four hundred kilometres up, Maren Voss and Idris Cope turn raw planetary signal into defensible choices. Scenario planning as stress test, not prophecy. Coastal futures as schedule, not doom.
The season closes by learning to look. A carer's fifteen minutes, an assessor who asks about the roses and does not write it down, a chamber voting on prevention — adult social care from the chair by the window.
Checked against the live catalogue on 18 October 2026
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