WATCH: Psychoville 1×01 – Pilot (Stream)
This then, is the new TV show from Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, half of the core team behind The League Of Gentlemen. And it’s called Psychoville. Which made me wary – what was Royston Vasey if not, um, a village full of psychos?
Quite.
So, yeah. This is, indeed, cut from the same cloth as he pair’s former grotesquerie. It’s British, so there’s lots of men dressing up as women. There’s a chain smoking, foul mouthed children’s entertainer. And, there is the promise of a overarching narrative to keep one’s interest, even if all of the characters (like Dawn French’s Pauline retread) do not. Yes, it’s “dark”, it’s gross, it’s populated by creepazoids and freakazoids. But it has a bigger budget than TLOG, and no laugh track! And this first episode was promising.
So, yeah. That’s what I think. Cheers!
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I’m not usually very good at sticking with episodic TV programmes, but I caught the first two episodes of this a couple of weeks ago, and I’m certainly interested enough to keep watching.
Definitely strong echoes of The League of Gentlemen (as well as Catterick), but I’d rather they were doing this than some shitty sketch show.
I also agree about some of the characters being a little week, but I’m enjoying the Lomax strand of the story enough to let that slide.
Episode 2 is up on iPlayer now by the way.
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June 28th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
In my own humble opinion, I thought it was bloody awful. Lazy rehash of unused TLOG characters and piss poor jokes. Don’t get me wrong, TLOG was a great show, but it has most definitely had it’s day. This was a pretty painful experience to make it through the whole episode. It’s just poor comedy, badly written, unfunny and I’m very doubtful as to whether it’s worth bothering with at all. (Oh look, an abusive clown – Har De Frikkin Har) Shame really. They were funny once. British Comedy needs to up the ante rather than wallowing in what worked ten years ago. Rant done. ZH
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June 30th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I quite liked it.
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June 30th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
me too.
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June 30th, 2009 at 3:38 pm