How to Trick Your Way onto the Property Ladder review – living in a grave plot? We really are screwed

Oobah Butler pulls some fun stunts in this takedown of the housing crisis, such as hypnotising estate agents and renting prison cells. But his trip to a graveyard is brutally symbolic

Why can no one of my generation find an affordable place to live? Andy Burnham, who makes a surprise cameo on the new Channel 4 satire How to Trick Your Way Onto the Property Ladder, has two words: “Margaret Thatcher.” The housing crisis is a policy issue, but the presenter Oobah Butler wants to trial wackier workarounds for millennials keen to game a rigged system.

Butler’s tongue-in-cheek documentary explores some elaborate parodic ideas, using himself and two young, hopeful first-time buyers, Mohammed and Insaf, as guinea pigs. Have they tried the bank of Mum and Dad? Let’s try to hypnotise an estate agent into selling us a property for a fiver. Perhaps it’s just about cutting out Netflix and coffees? Or could he swindle some property off the king?