Carrying on a series without
its original writer-creators is always tricky, but especially one that had as original a tone and
structure as The Brittas Empire. Terry Kyan's script (concerning the
supposed death at sea of a regular) aims for outrageous black comedy, but feels
a bit too messy to pull it off. A lot of it happens away from the leisure
centre (at the seaside, at sea and at the cemetery), which doesn't really play
to the series' abiding strengths of the peculiar manager of a bizarre
workplace.
The most interesting aspect of the episode is the two guest characters - Donald Pickering and Rowena Cooper as the bickering grieving parents - in whom the writer could create something new and follow his own interests.
The most interesting aspect of the episode is the two guest characters - Donald Pickering and Rowena Cooper as the bickering grieving parents - in whom the writer could create something new and follow his own interests.
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