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Sex Education: Episode 1 (2023)
It's just a bit silly
I'm happy to watch the rest of the series but the lack of lateral thinking from the main characters is genuinely maddening.
Otis not bothering to explain or even message Maeve back is ridiculous. Like, I don't buy that his character would just ignore her instead.
The characters that went to Moordale and all know each other not banding together is weird. Why had nobody told the substitute teacher that they don't use pens?
As others have said, the new college is bonkers. So over the top that I don't know whether it's actually the obvious way to go to do something like that. Wouldn't it be private and cost a fortune? Or are we now not even in the UK? The show has surely got to have SOME rules?
Untold (2021)
A Puff-Piece
It's a nice, fun story if you leave out the vast majority of the bits that don't make it nice or fun.
The lies by omission are huge here, and paint Meyer in a totally different light to what we see him as. This Christian, god-fearing guy that was filmed publicly groping someone that was less than half his age and not his wife. The guy is a 'practicing roman Catholic'. He needs to practice a bit harder.
Virtually no mention that one of his players went on to murder someone. Barely a mention of the rest of the arrests and only showing the glamorous side of the workouts they did.
This is only entertaining if you consider it basically as fiction.
Ricky Gervais: SuperNature (2022)
He's clever and he's funny but this is lazy
I feel like Gervais has lost sight of what he was, maybe it's unfair of me to think that wouldn't happen with age and experience. He's better and funnier and more intelligent than 'I'm going to offend some people and not care about it'. I laughed a few times at this, but it falls into the same category as series 2 and 3 of After Life, for me: incredibly indulgent.
I've lost count of the amount of times he's told people in his stand-ups that he's atheist. It's not unusual anymore, and everyone knows he is. He's also gone after the trans jokes before. He's not saying anything revolutionary about that either. He's relying on the same stereotypes that have been disproved time and time again.
I'm a very firm believer in that if something is funny enough, it isn't offensive. But these jokes are lazy, at least they are to me. I've seen it before on twitter, he should have to work harder on his material than just telling his audience what they want to hear. There are clearly people in the audience that haven't heard this kind of stuff before, and that's fine. All I'd say is that it's very common and there are teenagers on reddit with funnier commentaries on the same subjects.
Ricky is well known for his twitter narcissism, he often retweets praise of himself. So he'll probably see this and disagree. But he doesn't get offended does he, so that's alright.
If you watched his last stand-up and thought it was okay, this is more of the same. I'd certainly be watching Bill Burr, James Acaster, Bill Bailey, Phil Wang, over Gervais again.
After Life (2019)
Indulgent 3rd series is a shame
First two series were very enjoyable and it felt like it had just started going somewhere. I get why so much of it is focused on grief, and that part is really well done. I just feel like now it's all there is, that and him being tremendously rude and suffering zero consequences.
I like a lot of Gervais' programmes, this series just felt indulgent. As if he took all of the insults he wanted to say to people and thought of in the shower, and shoved them into one series. As someone else said; everyone else is a moron and he's the incredibly insightful misanthrope.
I'd highly recommend series 1 and 2, the third series has just about enough funny parts to make it worthwhile, and plenty of touching parts if you hadn't already had enough of that from the first two series.