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People who love it really love it, people who hate it really hate it. I'm not quite sure what some people are seeing and others aren't.
While there is one poor episode which didn't engage me, I did come to really like it and would love to see more. It's cleverer than it perhaps looks and it works on different levels and with different types of humour. I do very much appreciate that kind of work over one-note humour.
I'm not going to spoil it for anyone but the finale of the first series is a cracker, and the actual ending is more thought-provoking by far than anything else you usually find in comedy.
Good performances, good jokes, good cast, good locations, some good recurring jokes (with huge potential, and legs).
It's too early to say but I do think this is going to have the same lasting appeal as Father Ted.
While there is one poor episode which didn't engage me, I did come to really like it and would love to see more. It's cleverer than it perhaps looks and it works on different levels and with different types of humour. I do very much appreciate that kind of work over one-note humour.
I'm not going to spoil it for anyone but the finale of the first series is a cracker, and the actual ending is more thought-provoking by far than anything else you usually find in comedy.
Good performances, good jokes, good cast, good locations, some good recurring jokes (with huge potential, and legs).
It's too early to say but I do think this is going to have the same lasting appeal as Father Ted.
I'll be upfront about it - it's not a genre I like. To me, it feels like:
1, Give everyone a motive 2, Make the actual motive, means or opportunity convoluted 3, Reveal it slowly in the last 10% of the film with occasional flashbacks to things which make no sense unless used retrospectively and implied as clues
I don't see anything different in this film. I'd praise it if there was a really clever subtext or it said anything about, well... anything at all. It's just a jigsaw, though. Here are some pieces, bit of a mystery about what the picture is, now we've put it together we can see it's:
1, Sydney Opera House 2, A close-up of Ernest Borgnine's face 3, Some hyenas
Well, great, that was worth two hours. What would have been great is if hyena DNA got mixed with Borgnine and he was scampering about the carapace of the Opera House with tails coming out of his face. At least that would present the possibility that humans have even the slightest imagination, rather than perpetually retelling the most tedious parts of our existence and imagining that it means something.
To be fair, it does mean something. But only to the tedious.
1, Give everyone a motive 2, Make the actual motive, means or opportunity convoluted 3, Reveal it slowly in the last 10% of the film with occasional flashbacks to things which make no sense unless used retrospectively and implied as clues
I don't see anything different in this film. I'd praise it if there was a really clever subtext or it said anything about, well... anything at all. It's just a jigsaw, though. Here are some pieces, bit of a mystery about what the picture is, now we've put it together we can see it's:
1, Sydney Opera House 2, A close-up of Ernest Borgnine's face 3, Some hyenas
Well, great, that was worth two hours. What would have been great is if hyena DNA got mixed with Borgnine and he was scampering about the carapace of the Opera House with tails coming out of his face. At least that would present the possibility that humans have even the slightest imagination, rather than perpetually retelling the most tedious parts of our existence and imagining that it means something.
To be fair, it does mean something. But only to the tedious.
I don't think it's a spoiler, given the title of the show, to say that this a celebration of things going wrong. It's also a celebration of the cast's attempts to soldier on through it and try to make the best of it. The Christmas story itself is largely inconsequential as it's just a vehicle to cram in as much mayhem as possible. It occasionally feels like anti-Christmas (or an anti-Disneyfied version of Christmas) and is all the funnier because of it.
What's most impressive is the number of different ways that have been conceived for a production to go wrong. It feels like it's been distilled from Acorn Antiques, It'll Be Alright On The Night, the Alan Partridge Christmas Special, but with a flavour of its own too. It's so quickfire that you really need to watch it more than once to catch everything, and it's just as grimly funny the second and even third time around. An increasingly belligerent and cynical Santa ties the whole thing together beautifully, although it wouldn't be the same without a visibly frustrated elf, an invisibly frustrated elf, and a snowman that meets a bad end (how did that do that?)
Very much looking forward to the rest of this series.
What's most impressive is the number of different ways that have been conceived for a production to go wrong. It feels like it's been distilled from Acorn Antiques, It'll Be Alright On The Night, the Alan Partridge Christmas Special, but with a flavour of its own too. It's so quickfire that you really need to watch it more than once to catch everything, and it's just as grimly funny the second and even third time around. An increasingly belligerent and cynical Santa ties the whole thing together beautifully, although it wouldn't be the same without a visibly frustrated elf, an invisibly frustrated elf, and a snowman that meets a bad end (how did that do that?)
Very much looking forward to the rest of this series.