Its a shame really that you can't just buy a single episode of this show, as that is all you need.
When I first started watching this show on TV I thought that it was fresh and interesting. I loved the characters and their great variety, and the sketches are fundamentally very funny. The problem I had was when I came to watch the second episode... I could have sworn that it was a repeat. Every single sketch featured the same jokes but in a slightly different setting. Don't get me wrong I think Catherine Tate is an excellent actress but there is no variety from one episode to the next. Occasionally I catch some of the more recent epsiodes and am glad to see that in every other one there is generally a character that appears for a single sketch and is then never seen again. But, in order to see these little nuggets of top notch comedy, I have to sit through another twenty five minutes of sighing at the now tedious jokes.
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Its a shame really that you can't just buy a single episode of this show, as that is all you need.
When I first started watching this show on TV I thought that it was fresh and interesting. I loved the characters and their great variety, and the sketches are fundamentally very funny. The problem I had was when I came to watch the second episode... I could have sworn that it was a repeat. Every single sketch featured the same jokes but in a slightly different setting. Don't get me wrong I think Catherine Tate is an excellent actress but there is no variety from one episode to the next. Occasionally I catch some of the more recent epsiodes and am glad to see that in every other one there is generally a character that appears for a single sketch and is then never seen again. But, in order to see these little nuggets of top notch comedy, I have to sit through another twenty five minutes of sighing at the now tedious jokes.
I can't be the only person that is getting fed up with this "phenomenon" who seems to have some real talent supressed beneath a thick blanket of crummy catchphrases.