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There has been a bit of a glut of sketch shows based around the boy-girl relationships of late, hasn't there. Swinging, Spoons and now this, all in the last month or two. But what I find most surprising is that I think they've all been passably good. I thought there were some truly great sketches in Spoons ('...But I'm probably doing you a vast disservice' stands out). I remember Swingers as being nothing like as awful as I had expected, although I think I only watched one episode.
Like you say, Man Stroke Woman is nothing ground-breaking, but the quality control seemed solid, the performances pretty tight and, you know, it made me laugh. I laughed at the infinity girlfriends sketch, the shag/marry/kill one, and I think others that don't spring to mind. Importantly, I don't think any of it really annoyed me. (For reference, I found both The Fast Show and Little Britain completely unwatchable beyond series 1)
Something that struck me is that although this appeared to have the same pitch as Swinging and Spoons, the 'Trials of modern het-coupling' theme was the setting rather than the object of most of the comedy.
All rather encouraging overall. There seemed to be a bit of a drought of this sort of thing after Big Train and Smack The Pony, so it's good to see some new talent emerging. |
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