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After a pretty good opening episode, there is definitely more to come from Warren. We've been crying out for a great new sitcom, and while I don't see this being great, I think it has the makings of a good show. Martin Clunes is a truly talented and versatile actor, he definitely added something to the show, elevating something decent to something good.

Well supported, Lisa Millett is a fine comedy actress, we'll wait to see how the neighbours turn out.

It should get decent viewing figures as it's paired up with the new Alan Partridge comedy, and numbers is the name of the game.

For a new sitcom, it wasn't bad at all. 7/10

This was a really great sitcom, great comedy acting, a tight script, great characters and genuinely funny.

Martin Clunes always delivers as the likeable rogue.

I can't wait for the next series.

Warren Episode 1 was not very amusing at all. I watched it on catch up around 9.30pm and it was so bad I fell asleep and missed the last 10 minutes. I wasn't sure I was going to bother again. But I did. And although there are bits that are absurd Episode 2 was much improved and I laughed and laughed my way through this one! I am hoping it continues this way as I'll be watching again.

One dimensional and lazily scripted, this is the first Clunes vehicle that fails to capture the natural humour of the actor. Perhaps the lack of substantial supporting cast leaves Clunes without the necessary foil for his curmudgeonly character or perhaps it's just the unimaginative writing with jokes that fall flat. Clunes always makes you care about the characters but in this one, I not only didn't give a toss about him, I got bored.

As I see from some reviews this is not do r everyone however this is a true British sitcom head and shoulders above the American rubbish that is awash on our screens at the moment. BRILLIANT bring on series 2

I can't begin to explain how miserable this driving instructor is. He is cheap, self centered, rude, pedantic and I don't know what. I can understand why someone would find this funny, but I think it's more embarrassing than anything else. I have no idea what childhood trauma or setbacks in life made him this way. I think he simply is a caricature and I'm happy he is not my neighbour or my driving instructor. If this first episode is indicative of the rest of the show, then we are in for loads of pedantic, cheap, ridiculous, rude, idiotic, seif centered and miserable situations. The writers should get credit for coming up with such a ridiculous character.

I like Martin Clunes usually, just his face is enough to get a laugh but in this show he plays such an unlikeable character I just wanted to punch it. Not going to bother watching any more.

From the first show, I just had so much fun laughing at Warren and his situation with his family. The quips, the swearing, the physical comedy all make for a good 30 minutes of laugh out loud moments. I love comedy of the absurd and really don't have to like the protagonist, nor find much redeeming in him..Though there are little things here and there that do come out..He loves his wife, he likes chickens and even showed a bit of compassion toward Danny with his girlfriend issues, well after he roared hysterically when Danny told him he was in love. This is not a deep intellectual comedy, but Clunes is masterful with his comic timing and great acting. I just need good show to laugh at, or laugh with and Warren does the trick..Look forward to it every week. I sure hope it is back for a season 2 as they has so many adventures yet to come

I love Martin Clunes and I really had high expectations for this. The premise was very good and I sort of expected a bit of a one foot in the grave for a younger generation. Regrettably though, it's the typical BBC rubbish, just with a great actor who cannot salvage anything from this car crash of a comedy.

I enjoy this and maybe relate to it as Warren is a grumpy git. It's not on the same par as white gold but still very good. Too much hate

I expected this to be worth watching with some degree of subtlety and wit. How wrong could I be ? The wife character is basically too stupid to be realistic and the husband driving instructor behaves in a ridiculous manner. The acting is OK considering quite how bad the script actually is. The characters are unbelievable two dimensional shallow fools. Such a waste for Martin Clunes.

What a pleasant surprise, Warren, a middle aged man who speaks his mind, a breath of fresh air amongst this boring world of 2019. Superb cast, jokes and plots.

This is utterly abysmal. Even the worst comedies I've seen have at least one or two mild chuckles buried in them but this is humour free. The attempts at getting a laugh are straight out of The primary school playground. I cannot understand why a great comedy actor like Clunes thought for one moment this would be a success. He can't be this hard up. Don't bother. Avoid at all costs.

I cried with laughter watching the first episode so funny but I've teenage lads so get it Just watched the second episode loved it Maybe my kind of humour love Martin Clunes It's just stupid fun love it

Clunes' Doc Martin is a curmudgeon, but he at least has some redeeming features and a possible underlying autistic spectrum disorder to excuse some of his behaviour. Warren has no such excuses, the character is an extremely unlikeable person that makes you cringe to the point of revulsion.

Within minutes I disliked the character and by the end I decided I couldn't bear to suffer a second episode, it was that bad. The cast do a decent job with their parts and Clunes' plays the role well... he must, as I usually like him and wanted him to be the victim of a terrible car crash in this, which in my opinion is the metaphor I would use for the show.

I imagine the scriptwriters have imagined a David Brent like character, and if you were a fan of The Office, then Warren's cringeworthy bad behaviour and the consequences that result from this may suit your sense of humour. If you didn't like The Office, I think you'll hate this. I did!

After seeing mixed reviews on this sit com I wasn't sure whether to give it a shot! But 3 episodes in and I rather enjoyed it. Personally, I find it very funny and I feel Clunes does a great job at making his character, "Warren" intruiging to watch. Not brilliant, but certainly not bad!

Not a good idea to put this next to Alan Partridge on the schedule. This new comedy is just awful. What was Clunes thinking. Warren is just a nasty, bad tempered, foul mouthed git. I see those every day, I don't find them funny either. Stop this rot.

Did you know the writers of this show hide 1 joke in every episode.... only problem is trying to find it.

A horrendous show, and totally unwatchable.

Like a lot of reviewers I wasn't totally won over by the first episode but then most comedies take time to bed in.

Warren has few redeeming features but I don't get this belief that a comedy character needs to have warmth for us to enjoy it. The comedy for me comes from enjoying just how obnoxious he is and how wonderfully well Martin Clunes, who is surely one of the best and most likeable actors of his generation, brings this to the screen.

It's not groundbreaking and reworks some well-trodden sitcom themes but it has provided us with some real belly laughs. What's wrong with some old-fashioned sitcom - not everything can be the next Office or Fleabag.

I hope the BBC stick with it and commission another series. When you look at how utter rubbish like Citizen Khan gets renewed then this deserves a chance to grow.

Its interesting that this is scheduled before Alan Partridge on BBC as it allows a comparison to be had between what good comedy and bad comedy truly are.

The best comedy is rooted in truth. Things have to be at least vaguely believable. Is it at all possible or believable that a man like Warren who goes through life calling nearly everyone he meets a tosser, nobhead etc would actually have a family and a partner or even more unbelievably a business teaching people how to drive? No it's not. It's as if Clunes character has just been placed on earth from another planet where it's OK to do this and still be a successful human being. He's written as an approximately 50 yr old man who is a driving instructor yet has only just worked out that the internet exists so people can share reviews. So it's maybe not a good idea to abuse all your pupils and call them muppets?

Alan Partridge by comparison could conceivably be a real person. He wants to be liked but his own social ineptness and personal shortcomings don't allow that. There is so much subtlety to the humour on every level and the writers are absolute geniuses in my opinion. What is funny about a character who is as unpleasant as Warren to everybody who he meets? There's just nothing to laugh about here and there's no flesh to the character. What has made Warren like this? Where's the sense that this is a real man who has had some frustrations in his life up to this point which causes this behaviour? Or is this what BBC writers think the average British middle aged man living up north is now like?

I cannot believe British comedy has fallen this low to be honest.

Looked forward to watching this, and the new Alan Partridge show. Decided to read reviews first, then watch both.

Warren was pretty unanimously slammed online. But I thought it was good. Perhaps its my odd sense of humour - Rik Mayall was one of my all-time favs, and I like Martin Clunes too.

I don't agree with the previous reviewer's line 'he plays such an unlikeable character' - Warren is just Doc Martin moved up north.

First episodes of all the great sitcoms were weaker than the later ones, perhaps Fawlty Towers being a rare exception (because there were so few episodes after the first one). I'm hoping this'll be another of those greats.

We lasted 10 minutes into episode 1 before giving up in disgust. What was Martin Clunes thinking? What were the writers thinking?

I'll leave it at that as nothing more needs be said.

Really enjoyable and Martin clunes very funny. Some of the lines as good as only fools. Very good!

Looking at some of the reviews here, it's clear some people found this show funny and entertaining; this is good. Unfortunately, I did not. I know this review will be controversial as a result, but all I can do is give my honest opinion.

I can usually give new shows the benefit of the doubt but I found Warren so painfully flawed in so many departments that a 2/10 slating almost feels generous given how little I enjoyed watching it.

Imagine watching The Office, but Chris Finch is the main character and the entire show is all about him bullying people as unpleasantly as possible. That's what Warren feels like.

The first problem is the characterisation. Warren's family are bland and uninteresting and his wife is written as stupid to the point that you wonder how she remembers to breathe. Warren himself is a cringe-inducing disaster.

Unlike most "grumpy" characters, such as the beloved Basil Fawlty and Victor Meldrew, Warren does not have any charm or vulnerability to balance out his personality. He is not so much "grumpy" as he is sociopathic and narcissistic. He exists in a perpetual state of shooting out cynical, corrosive bile (usually directed towards people who don't deserve it) and smug self-importance (usually not played for laughs).

Warren outright verbally abuses his stepsons every time he talks to them, eyerolls through every conversation with his wife, relentlessly torments and rips off his driving students, slanders his work rivals and even commits actual crime because he doesn't care about anyone else.

One scene has him screaming irately at a garden centre manager for what feels like 10 minutes, insulting this polite man and just generally being a complete d**k in the most unlikable possible fashion. Are we meant to laugh because he's just a terrible bully with no redeeming features? Because it's...not particularly funny.

Added to the bad characters, the writing is appalling in some segments to the point of insulting the viewer's intelligence. The second episode was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Warren is accused by a family of running over their cat, after finding it dead in the road and stopping his car to look at it.

His wife was in the passenger seat of the car at the time, staring out of the windscreen, and he was driving at about 5 mph. She saw the dead cat lying there, heard Warren comment that it was already dead, and saw him get out and walk over to it.

So what does she do? She starts repeating, over and over again, that they will pay for the cat because she thinks Warren ran it over. Even though this is physically impossible for her to think unless she's had a full lobotomy or something.

I can tolerate a bad joke, but a bad joke set up in such a painfully stupid and nonsensical fashion was just too much for me.

In conclusion; it seems a bit like Marmite, you either love this show or hate it. Personally, I thought it somehow managed to be both bland and bad to the point of being unwatchable, so I suppose that in itself is an achievement.