I saw the first episode and once you’ve seen Emelia Clarke naked it’s not going to get any better than that is it? There’s no Fleabag because no matter how good it is there’s the inescapable feeling that it is overrated.
Here is my personal list of my favourite shows of the last ten years.
When we’re born we’re not suddenly aged one are we?! There’s a bit of time between! They’re called months! By the way, if you’re one of those people who actually think the twenties start in 2021 then stop reading this blog because you are clearly insane and need help.
#SIAN GIBSON NUDE DRIVER#
Transgender cab driver Barbara gets an update, now the gender fluid ‘are no longer the source of cheap laughs’… apparently. We get reacquainted as Al’s enjoying a happy family life (and with Car Share’s Sian Gibson as his wife Tricia) when his apparently long-lost father, the obnoxious, domineering Pop, returns on a dark and stormy night with a heavy foreboding. Pop and Al, less well-remembered characters from the first two series, look set for a bigger role. Such classic creations couldn’t be killed off… especially when insular local people fearful of everything in the outside world has such wider topical resonance. Indeed, although you probably already know we haven’t seen the last of Edward and Tubbs. ‘Didn’t there used to be shop up here?’ asks one of the labourers. We see the iconic sign being moved off the moors. For there is talk that Royston Vasey is about to be wiped off the map, and incorporated into its bigger neighbour… and the suspcions are that the townsfolk won’t give up without a fight. There are also in-jokes for the die-hards, including a mention of the nearby town of Spent, the setting for the League Of Gentlemen’s original Radio 4 series. Punny closing-down notices are posted on their storefronts, a touch of silliness to leaven the darkness, and just a handful of the many jokes lying in the background for observant viewers. Every shop is boarded up and the only place doing a roaring trade is the food bank.
The town itself, at ‘the end of the line’, is down on its luck. Even for this peculiar family, things are not normal since his passing: Auntie Val’s devotion to Nude Day, and the Twins’ sinister presence is not the half of it. Our return to the town mirrors that of Benjamin Denton, the token ‘normal’ character, who is coming back for the funeral of his very meticulous, toad-loving Uncle Harvey. It turns out some of Royston Vasey’s strange inhabitants are even more psychologically damaged than they were 15 years ago, having lived through the events of the original three series. But how come we are we back to where we were? Does she not recognise jobseekers Mickey and Ross after all they’ve been through? That familiarity of her catchphrase quickly turns to something a little more unsettling. Viewers will certainly get a happy wave of nostalgia at Pauline barrelling into her Restart class and chirping: ’Okey Cokey! Pig in a pokey’. And that’s a job well done in the first of these delightfully sinister episodes. The challenge was for Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and their co-writer Jeremy Dyson is to make new shows that could stand on their own merits, alongside the well-remembered originals. The League Of Gentlemen’s comeback will delight fans.
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