This evening, still feeling pretty terrible, I indulged in Sky 1's Comedy Friday. They aired a new TV show titled 'Spy'.
The show tells the story of Tim (Darren Boyd - The Green Wing) who is a bit of a bungling idiot. He's been working at the same dead-end job for seven years until he suddenly decides to quit, in order to win the respect of his son. He goes to a recruitment day for a civil service data processing job and is accidentally recruited as a spy working for MI5.
It's not a bad little sit-com. It certainly has some potential. The character of Tim is fairly charming and his situation has plenty of potential laughs. The MI5 recruiter als has a lot of promise. Played by the wonderful Robert Lindsay, who is evey bit a proper actor having fun in the role. However, Tim's son Marcus is truly terrible. It seems that the writers may have been aiming for the precocious child intelligence that has made BBCs 'Outnumbered' such a success. I'm not sure whether it's the writing, or whether actor Jude Wright has just failed to achieve the innocence of his Outnumbered contemporaries, but the character is, for me at least, a complete failure, so much so that I am unsure whether to stick with it for the remaining five episodes.
The show tells the story of Tim (Darren Boyd - The Green Wing) who is a bit of a bungling idiot. He's been working at the same dead-end job for seven years until he suddenly decides to quit, in order to win the respect of his son. He goes to a recruitment day for a civil service data processing job and is accidentally recruited as a spy working for MI5.
It's not a bad little sit-com. It certainly has some potential. The character of Tim is fairly charming and his situation has plenty of potential laughs. The MI5 recruiter als has a lot of promise. Played by the wonderful Robert Lindsay, who is evey bit a proper actor having fun in the role. However, Tim's son Marcus is truly terrible. It seems that the writers may have been aiming for the precocious child intelligence that has made BBCs 'Outnumbered' such a success. I'm not sure whether it's the writing, or whether actor Jude Wright has just failed to achieve the innocence of his Outnumbered contemporaries, but the character is, for me at least, a complete failure, so much so that I am unsure whether to stick with it for the remaining five episodes.
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