"The Full Monty" La Vie en Rose (TV Episode 2023) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2023)

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6/10
Pedestrian except Tallulah
xmasdaybaby196625 June 2023
I was really hoping that this would be improving by now but apart from the relationship between Dave and Jean and Jean and her boyfriend, it does seem all a bit pedestrian.

As with the first episode, it is a dog that steals the show with the final scene.

Apart from that, the only laugh I gave was when a girl was asked if she knew her scales.

Yes, the film was brilliant back in the day and maybe it would have been better, if they had to go back to the characters after all this time is if they had made another film rather than series.

Generally comedies are TV shows that get films made not thd other way around.
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6/10
La Vie en Rose
Prismark1028 July 2023
The third episode actually has a plot but once again the characters from the original movie hardly ever interact.

When they do, it is to help Horse with his benefit application. He needs to go for an assessment for his disability benefits. The writers making a social point that the system is there to fail claimants.

Horse needs to make his way to the assessment office. It is far away and he gets not travel allowance. When he finally gets there, the questions are loaded.

As for Gaz, he thinks he has found the next Banksy. Ant the new inmate at the psychiatric hospital is a graffiti artist. Gaz wants to manage him but Ant has lost his creativity because of the medication he is on. Gaz needs to get Ant out of the psychiatric wing into some kind of independent living.

You do wonder given Gaz works at the hospital. How little he knows about the effects of medication and that patients try their utmost not to be on it. Hence why Ant starts to act up after his mild improvement. Ant thinks he does not need his pills anymore.
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1/10
Stupid, Irresponsible Writing Warning: Spoilers
Quite apart from shoehorning every single form of social injustice and political commentary into every episode this particular chapter really takes the cake. Gaz telling a schizophrenic patient to cut down slowly on his antipsychotic medication just so that he, Gaz, can capitalise on the guy's artistic talent to 'become the next Banksy'. I think anyone can guess where that particular trope went? I'm just glad that the result wasn't a tragedy.

I don't think that having a co-writer in Alice 'Chumbawumba' Nutter has really elevated Simon Beaufoy's scripts in this frankly watchable but also deeply irritating reboot.
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