The Wright Way

If The Wright Way returns for another series I shall write a letter to The Pope to have it certified as an official miracle.

Gerald Wright is an overzealous, hyper irritated Council Officer dealing with Heath and Safety and forever coming out with acronyms that are rude but he is unaware of this.

He is newly singled but still carries a torch for his ex wife and he has to deal with a lesbian daughter and her dippy girlfriend.

Ben Elton once and for all proves that he has lost his comedy instincts. In the late 80s he was a comedy colossus both as writer and performer. This series is just one note with little creativity, few laughs and badly produced.

It is very hard to sympathize with Wright who is irritating. David Haig has little to go on with making his character likeable, despite accepting her daughter's same sex relationship.

I think the writer wanted to have elements of Victor Meldrew here but it does not work.

At the work office we have more two dimensional characters. Mina Anwar who was so good in 'The Thin Blue Line' ends up repeating the same plot points each week suggesting she might had murdered her late husband. She has a side plot about entering a dance competition with the Mayor, a man who dislikes Wright.

Haig is manic, loud and unfunny. The sitcom is a throw back to the 1970s and early 1980s.

This is not a Mrs Brown Boys rude and crude, knowing throwback. It is badly made and the acting is too broad.