Semi-Detached: What the Must Watch reviewers think
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This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan share their thoughts on Semi-Detached, a new real-time sitcom starring Lee Mack.
It starts on Thursday 6 August 2020 on BBC Two at 22:05 BST.
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Scott says: "It feels ridiculous but then I guess that might be the point of it"
"It’s not for me, but it’s a matter of taste. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s bad! I think it’s that type of humour that you find could hilarious because it relies on really far-fetched scenarios and rather ridiculous characters. It also relies on some rather puerile humour.
"There is a pilot episode that I highly recommend you watch before watching this because otherwise you will have no idea what is going on. Lee Mack stars as a DJ who isn’t necessarily able to get what he wants in life. He has a young baby and a very disgruntled girlfriend, but it is more about the relationship with his dad.
"It feels ridiculous, but then again that might be the point of it."
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Hayley says: “Completely fine but completely forgettable"
"It’s one of those completely fine but completely forgettable sitcoms. It felt quite 1970s in its set-up, in the sense that the men are useless and the women are annoyed at them so a lot of the scenarios revolve around that.
"There are a lot of bum and poo jokes and many, many other jokes about Lee Mack's character's IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). It isn’t that I am against those jokes - they can be very funny. There is a scene where a character walks into the kitchen and she says ‘Is that your IBS?’ and he goes ‘No, it’s lunch.’
"There's a lot of physical comedy and a lot of it isn’t revolutionary or different, however it is elevated by Lee Mack who is naturally very funny and he can’t help but be funny.
"He also has this astonishing moustache which we’ve never seen before and makes him look like a Chuckle Brother."
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Semi-Detached starts on Thursday 6 August on BBC Two at 22:05 BST.
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