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Douglas Is Cancelled (2024)
Not a comedy.
I find it incredible that ITV are billing this show as a comedy. While there are amusing moments from the generally brilliant cast, overall it made for dark and often very uncomfortable viewing. Karen Gillan is the highlight but even her performance can't prevent the show from dragging at times, and the misdirection doesn't feel as clever as perhaps the writers intended. By episode three I couldn't wait for it to be over.
It's hard to rate this show any higher, as it turned out not to be my cup of tea - I watched only because I thought it was going to be lighthearted fun played out by some of my favourite actors. That said, there are real reasons for the low score, too - the biggest of which was the absolutely bizarre Claudia storyline, which almost certainly *was* put in for laughs but missed the mark by miles.
Avoidance (2022)
Love RR but this is dreadful.
Romesh Ranganathan is a great comedian, but his strength lies in his dry and acerbic quick wit. Strip that away and you're left with what you have here - a dull, wet character who weaponises his incompetence and bores the pants off the viewer.
The writing is slow and shallow, the supporting cast are given very little to work with, and RR's Jonathan is frustratingly unlikeable; he really doesn't have any endearing qualities at all. The man is a walking red flag.
The only way that the show could improve is for the main character to realise what a passive aggressive, selfish turnip he is, which would then mean the show ceased to exist...
Seriously disappointing.
Father Christmas Is Back (2021)
Would give it 0 if I could.
There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this film; the middling to great cast actually make it worse by somehow collectively having lost the ability to act for 105 minutes. Liz Hurley is particularly utterly dreadful and offensive but even Kelsey Grammer and Caroline Quentin give mediocre amateur performances.
I assume the film is supposed to be funny. It's not. Ever. Not even once. It's packed full of 10 year old 'jokes', saturated with people drinking to cope with their misery, and the Beatles thesis story line is so bizarrely out of place it hurts. So what it gives us is a horrible, sad Christmas film full of self-loathing alcoholics with no feel good factor whatsoever. I don't think I've ever watched a Christmas film and felt depressed after watching it before.
Finally, I have to ask... why are the kids Northern??
SAS: Who Dares Wins: Brotherhood (2022)
The show is totally ruined.
I can take or leave Ant Middleton so this review isn't down to him being removed from C4, but rather the absolutely abysmal replacements for him. They clearly tried to get some kind of Middleton on steroids with his replacement but his shouty egotistical nonsense is everything we've been told in all the previous series will lead you to fail the course. We don't want BRAWN and BRUTALITY. We watch it to see characters push themselves to their physical limits and overcome their mental barriers. It also just feels wrong that the two original guys are now working under this floppy haired t055pot.
One star for Billy, one for Foxy, the rest is trash. The show is done.
Chaos Walking (2021)
Shamefully bad adaptation.
Great acting, decent effects, but almost every single wonderful aspect of the story that weaves through Patrick Ness' books has been removed from this basic mess.
If you haven't read the Chaos Walking trilogy then you may be able to find some enjoyment somewhere, but I could honestly cry at the missed opportunity to put these magnificent YA novels onto the big screen and bring them to a wider audience.
Thunder Force (2021)
Utter rubbish
First ten minutes with the characters as kids were OK. After that it went completely downhill. The script is absolutely dreadful and makes no sense whatsoever. I love MM but there was way too much of her stereotyped overacting from the off, which didn't fit in here. Switched off after 40 minutes or so. Don't waste your time, I'm warning you!
Best of Stand-Up 2020 (2020)
If this is the best stand up of 2020, how bad was the worst?!
Like they'd taken all the worst bits from some of the least funny comedians out there. Jack Whitehall's material in particular has been done 100 times before in a much funnier way and I spent the majority of the show wondering who in the hell laughed at any of these people the first time around?
2020 summed up in one show - desperate, sad and something I hope I never have to see again.