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Yikes, this is the first episode that didn't work for me. The whole opening expository thing felt forced and estranged me from the brilliant first season that everyone should already know. Meanwhile, visually, everything looked brighter and more cheery and had less of the garage-band-as-a-sit-com-spoof appeal.

Character-wise, Brian and Mike were too nice. Nick Frost who plays Mike hadn't reached the sidekick-acting brilliance he'd gain by Shaun of the Dead and for him, on this series, less is more, and here he was in the episode too much, especially having moved in. Always did prefer The Fonz in the blue jacket to the leather one.

Simon Pegg's Mike is going through the motions, and his buddy-buddy with Mike feels forced; they're better with a kind of offbeat love/hate vibe... And as for Daisy, she looks hot. Lost weight. But she too is... well...

Everything seemed just too much a genuine article of what the first season was parodying.