I usually enjoy Australian series. I find them clever and interesting. Not this one. When I saw the high ratings for this comedy series I thought I was in for a treat.
For the first 30 min of the first episode I found the premise intriguing and I even had some laughs. Unfortunately, it all went down from there.
I understand that, for comedic effect, one has to - occasionally - suspend one's disbelief. I am fine with that.
I also know that the absurd can be witty/funny. (eg: Eugene Ionesco) Sadly, in this series, what happens on the screen is just ridiculous, without being funny. Characters don't make sense in what they say or do. (Just one example: in a lawyer's office, a customer is asked to sit on a bean bag - a 100 years ago the three stooges had more clever attempts at humour) The whole thing has the feel of a silly story put together by a teenage kid as an assignment for his grade 8 drama class to have a good laugh with his equally silly classmates.
After having the patience of watching two episodes of this childish attempt at comedy, I gave up.
For the first 30 min of the first episode I found the premise intriguing and I even had some laughs. Unfortunately, it all went down from there.
I understand that, for comedic effect, one has to - occasionally - suspend one's disbelief. I am fine with that.
I also know that the absurd can be witty/funny. (eg: Eugene Ionesco) Sadly, in this series, what happens on the screen is just ridiculous, without being funny. Characters don't make sense in what they say or do. (Just one example: in a lawyer's office, a customer is asked to sit on a bean bag - a 100 years ago the three stooges had more clever attempts at humour) The whole thing has the feel of a silly story put together by a teenage kid as an assignment for his grade 8 drama class to have a good laugh with his equally silly classmates.
After having the patience of watching two episodes of this childish attempt at comedy, I gave up.