|
| Foocha! is a non-profit Web site. We do it for kicks, not for cash. If you're interested in writing for the site, click here |
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
| TV,
jerry carpenter,
02:00:00,
05 April 2001 |
Rating: F2
|
|
| |
| |
|
Ugh – I thought I’d get away from this because it was being ‘exclusively’ shown on C4’s bring digital sister channel E4, and so I’d never find myself slumped in front of it totally lacking the energy to switch channels or brick the screen or anything. Too bad because the mother-crushers slipped it to me like a lethal soporific drug when my defences were at their full drained weakest, Sunday morning. Those BASTARDS.
It’s a youth drama, so it’s a shields-up situation from the word go. Worse, it’s purported to be cutting-edge, so better get some extra troops up on the battlements to fend off the incoming tragically shite soundtrack and annoying post-‘The Naked Twat’-style laarkin’ araand.
What a shame to be such a cynical shit eh ?. I mean, why can’t a late twenties fart like myself allow the kids to have a show where characters like themselves deal with all the emotional highs and lows they probably experience? Hey, I know, because every time they make something like this it’s the same generic arseholish characters going through the same generic rites of passage shit. Hang on, maybe the kids of today ARE all like that, with the same production-line fashion and social sense as their TV reflections! – wow, now we’re in the shit.
You know, I was about to blame that old hag of a reference, ‘Trainspotting’ for the emergence of more of this toss, but at least that had some kind of sense-of-humour – club scenes where the background music was often louder than the dialogue, likeable ‘dislikable’ characters, and people pooing themselves in bed. This just feels like a ‘Jackie’ girl’s comic photo story hit with a magic 3-D ray. He fancies her. She doesn’t fancy him, she fancies that other guy. Oh, that guy is gay though, and fancies some other guy
. it’s a drama-quake !, run for the hills ! It’s even got the requisite ‘weird’ girl in it, tattoos and nose-studs etc, and what does she listen to in her room ? – well, Mel C of course ! Euh ?.
At one point a character makes some joke at the expense of uber-teen drama ‘Dawson’s Creek’. Well hey, at least that show is performed by ACTORS, not these fresh out of spot-cream ads spawn. Ugh – did I just defend Dawson ?. Shit, that’s how twisted this show has made me. Do me a favour, don’t watch this, and if you do, don’t mention it to me should you see me or I will PUNCH YOU.
directed by someone clueless
starring a cast of annoying unknowns
Top Home |
|
|
|
|
