Ideal
Graham Duff’s Ideal is a kind of hermetically-sealed sitcom. It’s all about the four walls of drug dealer Moz’s nasty flat. It’s claustrophobic and quite dark. I mean literally dark. No natural light (not even the simulated kind) shall fall on these sticky carpets and collapsing armchairs. It reminds me of Eraserhead—which sounds like a [...]
Doctor Who Confidential
I can’t remember exactly when we acquired a taste for this kind of ‘making of’ material. Was it when DVDs came along with all that extra room for stuff? Or was it something to do with the gaping maw of multichannel TV and the pressing need for hundreds of extra hours of programming? Or—bit more [...]
Gavin and Stacey, Season 2, Episode 4
The second series of Gavin and Stacey has already had a mention here, but last night’s episode deserves another plug for being particularly fine. The characters live in a wonderful place, somewhere between surreal and utterly mundane. The wonderful oven glove scene seemed familiar and yet extraordinary.
Gavin and Stacey - Season 2, Episode 1
Well this is effectively a modern “Bob and Thelma” following the same classic UK sitcom wedding arc. Smiffy and Gavin (and Bryn) explore male friendship just as effectively as Bob and Terry. James Corden and Ruth Jones get all the best lines, probably because they wrote them. However, jokes about badminton lessons, the Elm Lodge [...]
