Just a heads up that Series 2 of this fabulous (and to my mind very AW-esque) BBC4 comedy drama series (fear not, no laugh track) starts this Thursday. Four episodes of Series 1 still on iPlayer.
That said, the conceit of the trailer for Series 2 is ghastly: a faux-Hollywood Blockbuster voiceover which is not only wrongheaded (even in the context of being ‘ironic’) but actually makes the speech in the clips hard to hear. Have they learnt nothing from that ‘mumblegate’ thing last year?
Brilliant, really looking forward to this.
One of my favourite lines from the last series was something like “I mean, how many women do you really know who’d set aside a whole afternoon to organise their vinyl collection into alphabetical order?”
Um, hullo…
Another endorsement from me. I missed the first series when it was originally shown but caught the repeats that have been on ahead of season 2. It’s great. Subtle, understated, characters you can believe in/relate to. And Toby Jones is touching and hilarious as Lance.
This and Catastrophe series 2 starting in the same week. If either are as good as the first series, its going to be a chucklesome week.
Great series.
And one of the things I liked about it was the quality of filming. It felt cinematic in a Scandinavian way, lots of muted colours and big skies, I guess the Essex/Suffolk coastal locations helped with that.
This series with added Diana Rigg, to play her own daughter Rachel Sterling’s mother.
The pub quiz episode from series (sorry, season) 1 was superb – having a round on ITV2 etc