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I thought season 2 was great.
Depends on what you mean by sketches. Straight sketch comedy like "The Whitest Kids You Know" is kind of a niche thing. Often shows will have sketches, but only a segment rather than the whole show.
Then there is (ugh) ... "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!" which is mostly terrible. Probably the reason it is on adult swim in the early hours of the morning. Although I don't even know if I would call that sketch comedy. I don't know what anyone would call that.
Check Netflix again - all 4 seasons are up there.
Well Season 2 had pretty much the same sketches (Numberwang) as Season 1; it almost seemed rushed because they (the BBC?) didn't realise it was going to do well as well as it did.
Season 3, if I'm remembering correctly, had alot more new stuff in it.
So you're exactly the person Chegger's Naked Jungle was aimed at.
I always think this is much more a Paul Whitehouse/Harry Enfield thing than a general british comedy thing.Or at least, I struggle to think of other sketch-based series that exhibited that tendency to the same degree as their programmes.
And then you have Little Britain that started out that way
There are many. But alot of them still get work on TV. The guy I saw play Richard III in my local Theatre cropped up as a small part in an episode of 'Apparitions' - and Jonathan Slinger, who is one of my favourite Theatre actors, showed up in an episode of Vexed.
I find it genuinely hard to believe that as a regular theatre goer you have never seen anyone from TV. I also don't understand why you would go if you consider it a lesser medium - it isn't cheap, and is the most expensive option out of film and television.
I'll admit that people are immortalized in TV and Film more so than a Theatre production - because people can rewatch at leisure and they have handy credits at fore and aft of an episode. Perhaps that is why theatre is considered the actors medium - If you aren't willing to shell out for a program and file them all for reference then you will forget alot of the actors in the plays you saw, even if they are great - but you will be left with a resounding memory of something like 'that production had an excellent Beatrice' - the character tends to win out in Theatre in that respect, but that does not mean that your career is on a downward path.
I feel Little Britain started out pretty well as a surreal look at Britain and its culture, before deciding that was all too much work so let's just bang out some catchphrases and see how far into 'gross-out' territory we can run before the BBC shuts us down.
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having said that, i would have preferred the ending to be more ambiguous. if events were more hazy, if details less absolute, she might leave him over trust issues or vice versa, then you get the whole "even with all that power" etc. as it is i felt kinda sympathetic to an abusive bully.
I'm now desperately waiting for a Charlie Brooker scifi series or film though.
Even aside from the ideas, Black Mirror is very well made.
Other TV on the past couple of nights I've enjoyed have been Lost Christmas (though the piano score got a tad annoying) and Little bleak shop.
We do have a thread somewhere I believe.