Red Dwarf takes you on wild adventures. Dave Lister, last human, is stuck three million years in future on mining ship Red Dwarf. His crew? A bunch of misfits. There’s hologram Arnold Rimmer, vain Cat obsessed with fashion and neurotic android Kryten. Sharp humor, quirky characters and crazy storylines make it stand out. Existential themes? Oh, they are everywhere. It’s a must-watch!

Meet the characters from Red Dwarf

Rimmer

Rimmer is the human-shaped bundle of neuroses and ridiculous ambition you can’t help watching. He’s a hologram with the rank fantasies of a small-town bureaucrat — pompous, pedantic, obsessed with rules and medals (actual medals are questionable) and always ready to remind everyone of proper procedure. He comes off as cowardly and smug but, in the weirdest, most infuriating way, he’ll sometimes do something unexpectedly brave — usually to protect his ego, of course. He hums nostalgia tunes when he’s nervous and has this lousy little heroic daydream about being a dashing captain, which is both sad and kind of adorable.

Lister

Lister is the scruffy, curry-loving slob-hero who somehow makes chaos feel like home. He’s lazy in philosophy but not in heart—improbably sentimental, a wandering philosopher with a dodgy haircut who loves music, lager, and the idea of “getting by”. He claims to hate responsibility yet keeps a tiny, surviving plant, a shrine to optimism, and will step up when mates need him (begrudgingly). He smells faintly of onion bhaji and hums 80s synth-pop when happy, and I swear he owns a cassette mixtape catalog that would break your heart or make you laugh.

Cat

The Cat is pure style — sleek, ridiculous, impossibly vain and convinced the universe exists to admire him. He’s descended from Lister’s lost cat, which explains the fashion sense and the way he preens like he invented grooming, plus pheromones, probably. A consummate narcissist who can also be terrifyingly primal (hunts things, lounges like a god), yet is oddly devoted to his crew in a very “I will not admit it” way. He hates water, adores shiny things, sleeps in sunbeams like it’s performance art, and occasionally offers profound one-liners between flexes in the mirror.

Kryten

Kryten is the earnest, overly polite mechanoid who will clean your soul and also your socks. Programmed to serve but secretly hungry for autonomy, he oscillates between ultraclean orderliness and tiny moments of chaos (he keeps a guilty stash of crooked teaspoons, don’t ask). He’s hilariously formal, prone to long lists of alternatives, and deeply moral in a slightly naive way that makes his emotional growth actually touching. He loves tea, soap operas and improbable loyalty, and sometimes breaks into despairing existential monologues — a walking contradiction who’s impossible not to love.