Mountain Goats (TV Series) Pilot: Miller's Mountain (2014) User Reviews

Worst sitcom I have seen

[d-d-g-lee · 1/10 · 7 May 2014]

I stuck with Miller's Mountiain until the very end as I wanted to see if they could produce 30min. Of comedy that didn't even make me smile once. Even the poorest comedies make me crack a smile once.

They did.

I thought I was watching a Ricky Gervais Micky take ala "when the whistle blows". I felt sorry for the actors as they tried to make the best of the hackneyed, old fashioned, stereotyped, lazy , predictable and just plain unfunny script. I honestly can't understand how the BBC commissioning team could look at this and think "Hey, this is fresh and groundbreaking"

Not even worth watching on Iplayer for novelty value, just avoid it.

Is there a bone sticking out?

[bad_badger · 10/10 · 6 May 2014]

Just watched Miller's Mountain on the Comedy Playhouse and tore something important from laughing.

Crude, irreverent and utterly devoid of pretension. A fantastic example of red-blooded Scottish comedy that should not be missed at any cost, even if just to catch a glimpse of Elkie the Boss-Eyed Stag.

Jimmy Chisholm's alcoholic mountain rescue/ice cream van driver staggers ineptly from one set piece to the next while being harried by Sharon Rooney's withering one-liners, but both are in danger of being up-staged by David Ireland's eerie and socially inept dog handler 'Bill'.

Kevin Guthrie plays the excellent (and increasingly exasperated) novice mountaineer "Conor", and an appearance from Only an Excuse's Jonathan Watson delivers one of the funniest lines in the show in the closing moments while reflecting on a harrowing day in the mountains.

If you missed it, check it out on BBC I-Player. You can thank me later.