Be Excellent To Each Other

I know it has been mentioned in bits and bobs a few weeks back, but surely this show deserves a thread of its own.

If you haven't been watching it, the last episode is on this week, and you need to download and watch the other episode pretty damn quick.
IMO the past 5 episodes have been some of the best acted and best written TV I have ever seen, I've watched most of them 2 or 3 times so far.

Go watch it, now... go on... i'll wait for you to get back.

I have been watching it. I didn't know anything about it until it was mentioned here, by SinisterAgent maybe? Anyway, I caught the first one on iPlayer and loved it. So cheers SA! Think I've only seen three so far and got the rest recorded but it really is good. Not something to only half watch though since a lot of the joy is in the small details and expressions. I'll be sad to see it end.
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are like Gods to me. Do you get better TV than Ab Fab? NO! No, you don't. So don't any of you be saying otherwise. *glares*

Big and beardy?

I really wanted to like this, but just found it extremely dull. Why would I want to watch a show about two boring people sat around talking vaguely about having fish fingers for dinner. I just didn't find any real interest to the dialogue.

I should maybe have given it more than 10 minutes, but by then I figured I had seen all it had to offer.

You didn't see the Zombie Spider bits?

You really haven't seen everything it has to offer at all! There is an underpinning story hinted at and played out through everyday dialog and expression that really is quite subtle and so so well acted.

I've not seen the latest one yet, but it has been superb so far.

The writing isn't all that great to be honest, and sometimes the conversation doesn't feel natural, but in the hands of French and Molina it becomes great poetry, and you're drawn into the characters more and more each time.

Ah, that would be that show where two unfunny people would do unfunny parodies of films that had been out for a decade.

Probably apocryphal conversation at a BBC Comedy party:

Dawn French: "Simon! Simon! Great to see you!"
Simon Munnery: "Er, thanks."
Dawn: "I loved that series* you did. Are you getting another one?"
Simon: "Er, no Dawn."
Dawn: "Oh... why not"
Simon: "Apparently they've spent all the money on you and your ugly mate."


*Attention Scum

I am talking pretty much exclusively abou Ab Fab when I say that, I don't think I've ever watched one of their sketch shows.

Ab Fab had one good idea. Joanna Lumley as a chainsmoking alcoholic slapper.

Admittedly brilliant, and enough to sustain a series, but it was just the one good idea.

I should point out that I'm one of the few Mighty Boosh and Michael McIntyre fans here and so am prefectly willing to accept that my opinions on comedy shows might not hold much water with the majority of you

unfortunately. Watched episode 1 and couldn't bring myself to watch any more.

I need to check the rulebook, but I think it also makes you the dictionary definition of pure, universe-endangering evil.

Roger and Val is the best thing I've seen on tv for many years. Last week's episode was so involving I literally leapt off the sofa at one point, fearing for the wellbeing of one of the characters. I was lying down at the time, and hadn't even realised how engrossed in it I was.

It's so good I've actually bothered to make time to watch it, which I don't think I've done regularly for a programme this century.

If I download this and it's shit I'm holding you people responsible.

Pro tip: It's not a comedy (and certainly not a sitcom); it's a slow, subtle character drama.