I enjoyed it-and definitely think it works better in a half hour format. As has been said though, it's not the same without the American guy too. It's completely different as I too thought the whole point was how perfect they'd have been for each other!
 

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I agree SBF.
 

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I still love the other girls Alice works with-they're just *so* ditzy!

 

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Just me that thought it was pretty poor then? I really liked the first series when it was first shown but caught some repeats last year and didn't think it was as good as I remembered it. And last nights episode really disappointed.

I really like Tamsin, couldn't see why she'd agreed to do it, but Sheridan, in my view, is really quite bad.

I thought the plot, for want of a better word, was disjointed and contrived and was not engaged by it at all. Unfortunately, as I was looking forward to it.

The best thing about it in fact, was that because I watched it I was still awake at 9.30 and caught the first 3 episodes of Gavin and Stacey, which was just as funny second time around.
 

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No, no, no! She is so gawky and toothy and wet with that horrible voice!

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That is exactly the appeal.
 

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Sam Wollaston in The Guardian seemed to hate the show.
 

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Now that the American bloke has left, it's obviously a different show. It's no longer about two people who are perfect for each other who never meet. Now it's just about Alice and I wasn't sure if the show would work that way. Whatever Alice went through in the first series, Gil went through something similar and I enjoyed that. But, I was pleasantly surprised by Saturday's episode and now have no worries about how the show will work without Gil. Look forward to the nest episode.
 

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I'm still pretty unconvinced. And being of the girlie persuasion, I'm missing the male element of the show that Gil provided. There was so much mileage in his storyline, I really don't understand why they've ditched it!
I feel that the premise of the show has been compromised. There were funny moments in the first episode of the second series, and I like the characters, but I found myself waiting for Gil to appear, and then it ended.
I'm unfulfilled.
 

Quote: Ian Wolf @ March 3, 2008, 11:57 AM

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Well that makes it great then., If the Grauniad hate it then it must be good.

Fucking tossers!
 

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I thought it was semi-likeable but certainly not unmissable. The characters aren't real enough for you to care about them and there weren't many laughs.
 

Well, I thought it was jolly good. In lesser hands than Renwick's, the bedroom performance review subplot would all have been a hilarious misunderstanding. And the gentle/mental confusion was genius.

Renwick is the best British writer of farce. I appreciate that for many people that's like saying Marcel Marceau was the best mime in the world, or that lethal injection is the best form of execution, but I don't think you can beat a properly executed farce for laughs. And I don't mean Whoops, Vicar, I Appear To Be Wearing Your Wife's Knickers by Ray Cooney, I mean Frasier and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
 

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Anything from camp Cooney is brilliantly funny.
 

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Well, it would be a boring old world if we all shared the same taste. Unless it was my taste, in which case it would be awesome.
 

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But nowhere near as awesome as it would be if you liked Cooney works.
 

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Careful Aaron - that could be considered racist.
 

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