It was not as bizarrely eccentric as it sounds.
Now, I like to come into an environment and try to understand it, even one as bizarrely unwholesome as this.
The eight hand-coloured works by William Blake, an artist as bizarrely eccentric as he was visionary, are also remarkable.
The supporting performances are commensurately larger, too, with the unctuous movie producer Saul Kimmer Philip LeStrangee, replacing Robert Lupone) as bizarrely silky as Liberace.
But will it make for as bizarrely compelling viewing as Dr Christian's escapades?
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it "really very funny an awful lot of the time, as well as bizarrely gripping".
These broadcasts, some of them as bizarrely cheerful as fast-food commercials, dealt bluntly with issues of torture and poverty, and became required viewing in Santiago and beyond.
Falconry brought together a group of joint nominating states as bizarrely diverse as the list itself: the UAE, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Korea, Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Syria.
You are there, and when an unfortunate incident results from the character's attempt to pee in sub-zero conditions (don't keep it out too long!), it's as bizarrely gripping as anything he has ever written.
Well, it turns out to be every bit as crass, offensive and incorrect as you'd expect, but it's also - gulp! - really very funny an awful lot of the time, as well as bizarrely gripping, like a new sequel to Saw written by Joe Orton.
