Young woman denied benefits builds illegal drug empire exploiting systemic biases against her cerebral palsy. Sharp-witted Emily Jones uses her overlooked status as cover to sell narcotics u... Read allYoung woman denied benefits builds illegal drug empire exploiting systemic biases against her cerebral palsy. Sharp-witted Emily Jones uses her overlooked status as cover to sell narcotics undetected.Young woman denied benefits builds illegal drug empire exploiting systemic biases against her cerebral palsy. Sharp-witted Emily Jones uses her overlooked status as cover to sell narcotics undetected.
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Oh dear
A comedy of errors if we need to have the word comedy associated with this poorly written obvious waste of time.
Whoever told the writer they were funny was only being kind.
Disjointed difficult to follow and oh how slow and barely pedestrian it moved from o e painfully stereotyped scene to another.
Clearly filmed on a budget when the supporting cast had the spare time it gave the impression it was just a vehicle to press home Rose is disabled and requires reminding and is desperately seeking a numerous angle.
Spoiler alert it wasn't funny it was embarrassing and quite frankly insulting to anyone with an ounce of respecting the diverse society we live in.
Good try but a fail.
Whoever told the writer they were funny was only being kind.
Disjointed difficult to follow and oh how slow and barely pedestrian it moved from o e painfully stereotyped scene to another.
Clearly filmed on a budget when the supporting cast had the spare time it gave the impression it was just a vehicle to press home Rose is disabled and requires reminding and is desperately seeking a numerous angle.
Spoiler alert it wasn't funny it was embarrassing and quite frankly insulting to anyone with an ounce of respecting the diverse society we live in.
Good try but a fail.
A Stinker
I wanted and expected to enjoy this, but found it painfully unwatchable. The writing is hackneyed and derivative and constantly misfires. The performances have energy, but that can't salvage the insipid script. The comedy for the most part just doesn't work. It lacks charm and has big 'written by committee' energy.
Most of the jokes don't land and many are as predictable as Bank Holiday traffic jams. There's plenty of irony, although certainly unintentional, as this identity politics based sitcom seems to be unsure of what it is (and isn't).
Armando Iannucci has been responsible for some of the best tv comedy, but this is a stinker.
Most of the jokes don't land and many are as predictable as Bank Holiday traffic jams. There's plenty of irony, although certainly unintentional, as this identity politics based sitcom seems to be unsure of what it is (and isn't).
Armando Iannucci has been responsible for some of the best tv comedy, but this is a stinker.
Great show, great writing, great cast.
Rosie Jones is a superior comedy writer and Pushers is an excellent demonstration of playing to one's strengths and it's great to see her enjoying her character and not hogging all the best comedic lines for herself.
This show has perfect nuances of dark comedy shrouded by the realism of challenges and discrimination faced by society with varying disabilities.
This is a typical Channel 4 outing of how we should be exposed to a variety of creativity from all aspects and allow the viewer to immerse themselves into a world rarely treated to a comedic viewpoint without being directly or indirectly offensive to anyone.
This show has perfect nuances of dark comedy shrouded by the realism of challenges and discrimination faced by society with varying disabilities.
This is a typical Channel 4 outing of how we should be exposed to a variety of creativity from all aspects and allow the viewer to immerse themselves into a world rarely treated to a comedic viewpoint without being directly or indirectly offensive to anyone.
Embarrassing and cringe
Whilst attempting to be Shameless with disabilities but didn't live up to this. The acting was generally terrible and jokes the same.
Although I like the thought of disabled people being seen in society as all too often they are overlooked. Unfortunately many of the punch lines were missed and story line slow and predictable.
It made disabled people appear dishonest and stupid. What we are told in the media about many people falsely claiming benefits is made to appear true- whilst unfortunately there are many honest people out there who do not do this. Scenes like cocaine constantly being spilt or pretending to wet themselves just enhances the disabled stereotype. If you are going to do a comedy about disabled people you need to make them the opposite to this.
Although I like the thought of disabled people being seen in society as all too often they are overlooked. Unfortunately many of the punch lines were missed and story line slow and predictable.
It made disabled people appear dishonest and stupid. What we are told in the media about many people falsely claiming benefits is made to appear true- whilst unfortunately there are many honest people out there who do not do this. Scenes like cocaine constantly being spilt or pretending to wet themselves just enhances the disabled stereotype. If you are going to do a comedy about disabled people you need to make them the opposite to this.
Just not enough going on
I did make it through all six episodes, so it's not 'unwatchable', but they could have made this show so much richer, rather than spacing out the couple of gags that were present.
It kind of rushes its way toward the premise of the show after a very brief set up, but then doesn't feel like it knows what to do when it gets there.
It's a nice idea and a mostly pretty good cast, but unfortunately, there's only enough 'writing' for maybe two of them at best.
Good attempt, but this doesn't deserve another series on merit, even though it will probably get one because of the power of positive discrimintion. But I won't be watching it.
It kind of rushes its way toward the premise of the show after a very brief set up, but then doesn't feel like it knows what to do when it gets there.
It's a nice idea and a mostly pretty good cast, but unfortunately, there's only enough 'writing' for maybe two of them at best.
Good attempt, but this doesn't deserve another series on merit, even though it will probably get one because of the power of positive discrimintion. But I won't be watching it.
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