I watched the first episode of Bad Move hoping for a Jack Dee vehicle that featured his extreme put-upon miserable long suffering character portrayal that we have come to expect. Unfortunately we get Jack Dee 'lite'- pared back, presumably in the hope of a broader 'family' audience.
Sadly for me it just doesn't work. I have continued watching hoping it would get better but it hasn't. The noticeable lack of adverts in the break is a giveaway that audience numbers are not what was hoped. This is despite an excellent cast including Kerry Godliman and Miles Jupp who do their best with a frankly dull script and predictable 'sitcom' plots. One crass element is the wholesale lifting of the 'Little Britain' unhelpful shopkeeper character who continually shouts questions to an unseen partner. Unfortunately this features in every episode as if it is original and hilarious. It is neither.
The Jack Dee character, Steve, makes an unlikely web designer and since his livelihood depends on internet access the fact there is none when they first move in is ridiculous - they wouldn't have moved there without checking there was fast broadband available. He seems too one dimensional and I expect more venom and angst from Jack Dee than we get here. It's safe family friendly stuff with some good ideas but it's disappointingly thin gruel for comedy fans and whilst everyone has obviously worked very hard on the production I would be surprised if it got another series. Maybe the addition of another writer might spark it into life?
Sadly for me it just doesn't work. I have continued watching hoping it would get better but it hasn't. The noticeable lack of adverts in the break is a giveaway that audience numbers are not what was hoped. This is despite an excellent cast including Kerry Godliman and Miles Jupp who do their best with a frankly dull script and predictable 'sitcom' plots. One crass element is the wholesale lifting of the 'Little Britain' unhelpful shopkeeper character who continually shouts questions to an unseen partner. Unfortunately this features in every episode as if it is original and hilarious. It is neither.
The Jack Dee character, Steve, makes an unlikely web designer and since his livelihood depends on internet access the fact there is none when they first move in is ridiculous - they wouldn't have moved there without checking there was fast broadband available. He seems too one dimensional and I expect more venom and angst from Jack Dee than we get here. It's safe family friendly stuff with some good ideas but it's disappointingly thin gruel for comedy fans and whilst everyone has obviously worked very hard on the production I would be surprised if it got another series. Maybe the addition of another writer might spark it into life?