Dorothy insists that
Gary gets a cleaning lady, who turns out to be an attractive young woman...
with a funny foreign accent.
The things about this programme that made it seem sharp at the time are the things that now annoy me about it, and are mostly in the writing. Simon Nye gets a lot of his laughs from one character saying something slightly fanciful and another character reacting dismissively. Once you notice how it works, it doesn't sound good.
Making the characters' low motivations the source of the comedy was fair enough, but there's a mistaken sense that showing their disloyalty and base appetites is funny enough in itself, and that the leads' supposed charm will make these disagreeable people in some way endearing. The comedy is constructed around a lot of very short scenes, which get to the point that advances the plot as quickly as possible through the least intelligent route. I'd just like an actual scene with the space to investigate what's going on and to draw out some very one-note characterisation.
The things about this programme that made it seem sharp at the time are the things that now annoy me about it, and are mostly in the writing. Simon Nye gets a lot of his laughs from one character saying something slightly fanciful and another character reacting dismissively. Once you notice how it works, it doesn't sound good.
Making the characters' low motivations the source of the comedy was fair enough, but there's a mistaken sense that showing their disloyalty and base appetites is funny enough in itself, and that the leads' supposed charm will make these disagreeable people in some way endearing. The comedy is constructed around a lot of very short scenes, which get to the point that advances the plot as quickly as possible through the least intelligent route. I'd just like an actual scene with the space to investigate what's going on and to draw out some very one-note characterisation.
One disappointing aspect of this episode is that Tony starts a career as a model, but we don't get to see anything at all of him being interviewed or at work, something novel that it would be interesting to see.
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