Claire

Claire works behind the scenes on Big Brother, one of the production staff keeping the show running while the world outside starts to fall apart. Pregnant and practical, she is the kind of person who keeps functioning when everyone around her is losing their grip, more concerned with getting people to safety than with the broadcast.

Dead Set surrounds Claire with vanity and panic, and Shelley Conn plays her as the one adult in the room — steady, watchful, quietly terrified rather than performatively so. Against a satire this cynical, her decency isn't naive; it's the thing the story uses to make the horror actually land.