The first series of Staged was a revelation in those cautious, earnest days of the first lockdown. Simon Evans' smartly self-aware story, combined with gentle imagery, a deft running time and the evergreen charisma between Sheen & Tennant equaled one of the finest "Zoom-style" comedies yet produced. The second series couldn't help but land at a worse time and as such felt a little belated and the cameos within seemed fairly perfunctory but the core elements from the first prevailed well enough and the final (very real) scene felt hugely cathartic. Overall Staged is a charming affair and one of the nicer bits of entertainment to have emerged from our current fraught era - I long to revisit it in vastly different times.
Review of Staged
