Keeping Up with the Joneses

5/21/2026

In a leafy suburb, "Celia" (Maxine Peake) is having her morning coffee when a stranger appears at her door asking for her MP husband. He's not at home, so she closes her door and returns to her kitchen - only to find the agitated "Jerry" (Adeel Akhtar) and his henchman-looking pal "Mick" (Geoff Ball) already helping themselves to her Darjeeling. Now we already know that "Gerry" is a little on the unstable side, so when they demand a meeting with her spouse she thinks it best and safest that they just politely wait for him to get home. A visit from her neighbour quickly disavows her of that theory and before we know it, they are on their way to the home of his mistress and that's where we start to feel a distinct shift in the dynamic between these three characters. There are the ingredients