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Mr Weaver
Prismark1022 October 2016
Sword and sorcery fantasy comedies tend to be hit and miss. Dave makes an attempt with Zapped. In the first episode, Brian Weaver (James Buckley) is a temp on the verge of being sacked from his job. He ordered a phone charger and gets some sort of amulet that transports him to the fantasy land of Munty.

In this dimension he ends up in a pub called The Jug and the Other Jug. The regulars frequenting it seem to be a band of losers. A useless soothsayer, a drunk wizard, some kind of half-giant, half-dwarf and a warrior turned publican.

It turns out that Paul Kaye's Wizard had ordered the magical amulet but was sent the phone charger by mistake, Brian could use the phone to return home but his battery has run out and there is nowhere to plug his charger.

An interesting but unoriginal concept. Yonderland did something similar recently and a few years before that Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire.

Paul Kaye brings some life into this then again he has recent practice in being in fantasy productions. The jokes were lukewarm, the budget low but I did like the first episode enough to keep watching the series.
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8/10
"Its 100% safe, high 90's"
ygwerin119 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Brian Weaver is a rather hapless individual 'working' as a temp for an Internet Publishers.

Brian tries to obtain a charger for his mobile phone from Howell's Emporium, but instead he receives a strange looking bracelet. Brian is still trying to phone the number he is given when he reaches work, while being kept on hold he fiddles with the bracelet putting it on his wrist. But as he clips it together he receives a vicious shock, such that as he screams in pain he vanishes into thin air.

The next scene is set in a bizarre other world, apparently centuries earlier than Brian Weavers own. An ancient pub with somewhat prehistoric peoples its Landlord Herman, and a couple of its regulars Steg and Barbara. While they converse together they are interrupted by a large shriek and Brian Weaver bursts into view, and thrusts an injured hand into a tankard of ale.

Barbara a practicing Sear had been talking of meeting a "tall dark stranger' when Brian suddenly appeared, who's not tall but dark and certainly strange.

Brian finally meets Howell who has Brian's charger, and wants his Magic Amulet in return.

Barbara is keen for Brian to describe his world to them, and Brian has to explain not only his job but what the Internet is. But this gets lost somewhat in translation, such that Steg says "I'm hearing delivery boy".

Not to be outdone Brian tries to say "that's just what I do in the day. But at night..." And Brian proceeds to give a resume of a James Bond movie, with himself as the eponymous Bond.

Brian needs the Amulet to help get him back home but unfortunately for him, Howel has flogged it to a local psycho Slasher Morgan. But at the moment of handing it over two Fairies arrive and, sensing the use of "Unauthorised Magic confiscate both the Amulet and the dosh.

When Howell sees Brian's mobile he senses that this could be a way of sending Brian back home, but as Brian just needs to "press the Green Button on your communicating box" the phones battery dies. "But wait" says Brian "you can still do it all you need to do is to plug it into the charger which you have got, and into a socket that you haven't got..."
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