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| Armstrong and Miller, how could you? A few brief laughs surrounded by a load of misses and some spectacular bad taste. © Channel 4 2011 |
A disappointment. You can tell it’s not written by Armstrong
and Miller themselves, but by Simon Nye – who, after writing the thoughtful Doctor Who episode Amy’s Choice, should know better… but then I suppose he did create Men Behaving Badly. Whatever possessed
the talented comic duo to throw their lot in with this show? The sets and
lighting looked like a bad early 90s soap, the acting was hammy, the premise
flimsy and the jokes swung between dull and bad taste. “Hey, I know what, we
can have a reference to these two toffs attending Oxbridge, then show a
flashback of them bumming in a bush! That’s the kind of insightful satire that
Channel 4 really wants brought to a sitcom pilot set in 1908!” I won't even bother to cover the lame shreds of plot in summary form.
