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It's a licensed remake of Scrubs ? Crikey. So the credit for Victoria Pile devising it at the end is a bit hmmm, surely.
I quite enjoy the show, but it feels woefulkly padded. The tape-tinkering tricks look like a lift from Jam, but the overall look of the show doesn't really match that : Jam took place in some half-lit locations and people had odd relationships and the like, whereas this is Scrubs meets Teachers with Jam video effects... or padding, as I call it. Nine shows ? One hour each ? That's stretching it a bit. If each show was half an hour long, it's probably be corking.
Great cast, though I partly wonder if the fragmented nature of it is due to them not all being available at the same time or something; the episodes don't really seem to hang together as a solid narrative.
Shallow aside : Katie Day's awfully attractive, I think. Never seen her before, but mmm.
Haven't bothered to freeze-frame to see the names of the writers, but there are about a dozen of them, I think ? Might be why I find it a bit fragmented, as I say. Unlike, say, the League of Gentlemen, I don't get the feeling the scenes are all part of a bigger picture.
Still, despite C4 pushing it as something groundbreaking and amazing, it's all right, and is easily watched whilst doing something else - like so many TV shows, it could have been on the radio... |
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