Sally4Ever

I really like this show, but the 3rd episode was trite and boring and I wondered if I would watch it again/ But here I am watching the next episode and I'm just sitting here thinking ... what the eff am I watching. Seriously, what is this? I don't even know how to review this. It's just ... TF? What is the point of this, and why does anyone think I need this in my life?

Julia Davis is back with a bang, literally. And a lesbian one too.

This has all the ingredients we have have come to know and love from this challenging and talented British writer. It has all the usual knuckle-clenching and wince-inducing moments that Julia Davis and her fan base revel in, plus the obligatory dance scenes, of course.

Plotting the lack-lustre relationship of Sally through a personal journey, one episode in and I'm already hooked.

Even for Julia Davis, this pushes the boundaries. A guaranteed conversation piece.

Very Catherine Tate"ish" with a mix of the baroness von sketch show. Good stuff.

There are many reviews on here talking about the first and second episodes being too weird or dull or uneven. But you need to get through those to understand the tone, and then everything works. It's completely disgusting, embarrassing, awkward, dirty, sexual, and writhing just as you would expect from Julia Davis. Maybe some people will find it too much, but it's maybe too much because we aren't used to seeing women doing this sort of comedy. I mean, come on, who has seen This is The End...? Once you can re-program yourself from your usual frames of reference, it all makes sense. Anyone who saw Nighty Night will recognise Emma as a sort of reincarnation of Jill, but the US audience would probably not understand that show because it had a lot of nods to English regional stuff, so I can see why this one has been sort of broadened for that. Emma is gross and terrible, but honestly Sally is not much better, she's dull and naive and ordinary with no skills. Nice to see "Lovely April" from Peepshow as Sally, and Alex McQueen is revolting as David. The lesbian slant is completely disrespectful at the same time as driving the ideas of being gay and proud and accepted right out in the open. It's very clever, nothing is a sacred cow. I'm on episode five now, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the gross relationship between Dan and Emma. Don't watch it if you are easily offended, all the more for me. A brave and brilliant thing, just don't judge it. No moral fiber here. Don't expect any.

I always look forward to anything by Julia Davis, I guess a problem for her is that what was once extremely edgy in 'Nighty Night' is now almost mainstream. So many of her ideas have been subsumed into many sitcoms since, not to mention many of the performers she has worked with. However, whilst this revisits many of her motifs, it pushes the boat out on explicitness. What was once cringeworthy is now more jaw dropping. She has a knack for taking characters we all have actually encountered and pushing them over the edge. Excruciatingly funny, and terrifying at the same time, can't wait to see where this goes.