Simon Bird (now seen in such other shows as The King is dead and, erm) is of course the protagonist in the titling show, and also its narrator. While his voice is somewhat like the noise I imagine an elephant would make when revelling in its own flatulence, I find that I can often relate to him. He's therefore one of the good bits of the show. Put him in that section. If you like sections, or something. You NAZI!
The other three are pretty interchangeable (not that I haven't done my research! Don't doubt me! Love me!) obviously they're completely different and contrasting characters - which in part I think takes from the realism, though I realise that mainly the show is trying to be "a bit of a laugh" more than a sincere drama, but it helps to have a ground when you're taking off, you know? - I think that the actors portraying them have either been told to act their character incredibly over-the-top to pantomime proportions, or is really shit.
The plot is basically the most reliable humour aspect. Like Peep Show it generally ends up with everything turning out really shit for the hard-working boffin, and great for the slack-jawed idiot, a cruelly accurate caricature of real life. Oh, shit it's on.
I must admit fans, that I accidentally fell asleep during the show, (waking up for just long enough to catch a few advert then drifting silently back to noddyland) and so have had to watch the show on 4od this morning. A tiring exercise I'm sure you agree. Anyway, it struck me that the episode was fairly amusing, in the way that most of such shows are (i.e: cringe-factor dialled up to 300, everybody fucks up big time.) And so I take back anything distasteful I wrote in the first part and thereby cancel out my entire post. So that means you just read...nothing...again. Congrats readers. Sorry for being such a lightweight.
Great review. Definitely going to watch this. Oh, and stop swearing so much or I'll tell your mum
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