In 2018, which feels lifetimes ago now, Sara Pascoe made a short for the BBC called Sara Pascoe v Monogamy. It was ten minutes of oddness, earnest truth and was sharp and funny. This series belatedly tries to repeat that success in a longer form but sadly comes nowhere close - a kaleidoscopic mash of stiffly performed scenarios, all-too-brief animated segments from the great Stephen Collins, a kind of indulgent-but-flaccid meta commentary element, and a brittle undertone of raw truth that the artifice of it all sort of tramples to death. Pascoe is a great comedian - a cerebral writer and fantastic talent but she's not at all an actor and perhaps, strangely, the biggest mistake here was possibly to cast herself in the lead role as she comes across as at best cynically unpleasant and at worst stiff and inadequate which undermines any attempt at narrative. A serious shame and one of the biggest TV debut disappointments of the year for me.
2 Reviews
I Don't
Prismark106 November 2020
Sara Pascoe's Out of her Mind certainly tries to be quirky and it is a bit too meta but not really funny.
Sara Pascoe plays herself as an awkward person with not many friends who is single and not quite over being dumped by her fiance some years ago.
The audience gathers she is lonely as Sara keeps annoying the barista Luna at the coffee house. Sara sees other people around her moving on with their life such as her sister Lucy getting married.
This was not a strong opening episode despite Sara talking to the camera, having clips of animation. It even admitted that Luna is the peripheral black character. It tries to be clever but felt shallow instead to me.
This is another female led comedy that maybe aimed to be a lighter and frothier version of Fleabag. What Fleabag sometimes lacked in comedy, it at least had some dark tinged drama.
Sara Pascoe plays herself as an awkward person with not many friends who is single and not quite over being dumped by her fiance some years ago.
The audience gathers she is lonely as Sara keeps annoying the barista Luna at the coffee house. Sara sees other people around her moving on with their life such as her sister Lucy getting married.
This was not a strong opening episode despite Sara talking to the camera, having clips of animation. It even admitted that Luna is the peripheral black character. It tries to be clever but felt shallow instead to me.
This is another female led comedy that maybe aimed to be a lighter and frothier version of Fleabag. What Fleabag sometimes lacked in comedy, it at least had some dark tinged drama.
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