I never even considered watching this with my parents when they first followed it. Everyone online and real life just kept saying "bring back Gavin and Stacy!" and no one was in any doubt that by an objective metric this has become essential British Television.
I actually did get into it in the end. It's hard to describe...the humor is this idiosyncratic send of up of people's small foibles (familiar) but there's something about it's tone that oscillates from a life affirming serial about family and romance to the darker side of life. Nothing bleak, but the little embarrassments, the bizarre little things that we want to call people out on but don't are satirized with impeccable timing. Many shows try to show the humor that abounds in normal living and at last one of them isn't totally excruciating.
Filled with vivid, three dimensional personalities, Gavin and Stacy are the focus story-wise but in practice it's basically about everyone BUT them.
The over arching narrative is good enough but it certainly does not over stay it's welcome. It's all very breezey.
I actually did get into it in the end. It's hard to describe...the humor is this idiosyncratic send of up of people's small foibles (familiar) but there's something about it's tone that oscillates from a life affirming serial about family and romance to the darker side of life. Nothing bleak, but the little embarrassments, the bizarre little things that we want to call people out on but don't are satirized with impeccable timing. Many shows try to show the humor that abounds in normal living and at last one of them isn't totally excruciating.
Filled with vivid, three dimensional personalities, Gavin and Stacy are the focus story-wise but in practice it's basically about everyone BUT them.
The over arching narrative is good enough but it certainly does not over stay it's welcome. It's all very breezey.