Die Missgeschicke von drei jungen Fußballspielern bei einem fiktiven Premier-League-Verein.Die Missgeschicke von drei jungen Fußballspielern bei einem fiktiven Premier-League-Verein.Die Missgeschicke von drei jungen Fußballspielern bei einem fiktiven Premier-League-Verein.
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The BBC's glossy new football sitcom from the scatalogical mind of the In-Betweeners is what you might expect. Crammed full of psychotic characters, cringeworthy awkward moments and unexpectedly bleak crevices.
It's not reinventing any wheels but by largely sticking with the three solid leads (earnest optimistic Mattie, doleful overwhelmed Jack and vain manchild Benji) it proves strangely compelling. Although with that focus you sacrifice more time with some of the rest of the cast who become somewhat abstract caricatures. Will Arnett, in particular, just seems oddly pointless here and most of the big plot beats of the series just drift past without leaving much impact. None of three have any stake in them, particularly.
I'm no football fan, but there were some interesting points within about the fan-club relationship and frankly very little actual football beyond that. Dotted throughout the six episodes you also get some excellent cameos - from interesting character comedians like Phil Wang and Tom Bell to actual Jason Williamson off of Sleaford Mods.
In its rush to both be an embarrassing character comedy and a comment on contemporary professional football, it does neither particularly well and therefore will likely never enter the premier league of decent sitcoms. It does retain a wonky charm in its three earnest leads, if it goes into extra time le'ts hope we get more of them.
It's not reinventing any wheels but by largely sticking with the three solid leads (earnest optimistic Mattie, doleful overwhelmed Jack and vain manchild Benji) it proves strangely compelling. Although with that focus you sacrifice more time with some of the rest of the cast who become somewhat abstract caricatures. Will Arnett, in particular, just seems oddly pointless here and most of the big plot beats of the series just drift past without leaving much impact. None of three have any stake in them, particularly.
I'm no football fan, but there were some interesting points within about the fan-club relationship and frankly very little actual football beyond that. Dotted throughout the six episodes you also get some excellent cameos - from interesting character comedians like Phil Wang and Tom Bell to actual Jason Williamson off of Sleaford Mods.
In its rush to both be an embarrassing character comedy and a comment on contemporary professional football, it does neither particularly well and therefore will likely never enter the premier league of decent sitcoms. It does retain a wonky charm in its three earnest leads, if it goes into extra time le'ts hope we get more of them.
I actually really enjoyed this show. Ok it's basically the same formula as The Inbetweeners but transposed to the context of a football club. You have the same basic characters - the fish out of water geek, mr thinks he's more attractive than he is, mr nice but dim. Had it's share of cringeworthy moments but a high number of laugh out loud moments too. It's the kind of show that could improve further as it finds its feet in future seasons or could just fizzle and run out of ideas. Let's hope season 2 comes along and delivers
Very good sitcom, really enjoyed, would love to see a second series of this, funny in most places, would recommend
The First Team
Definitely written for a knowing football fan audience, I think this was very funny and even more so if you are football fan.
Great comic acting, great timing, great script.
Definitely written for a knowing football fan audience, I think this was very funny and even more so if you are football fan.
Great comic acting, great timing, great script.
Make no mistake Damian Beesley and Ian Morris are two of our best sitcom writers. After the brilliant Inbetweeners, Siblings and White Gold it was inevitable that a turkey had to come along. With the exception of Mike Bassett for some reason comedies about football never work. Which is strange when you consider the material you have to work with.
Despite the best efforts of the two writers the gags just don't work. Which is a real shame as I was so looking forward to this series. Far more sitcoms fail than succeed they are incredibly hard t write and I'm sure Beesley and Morris will be back.
Despite the best efforts of the two writers the gags just don't work. Which is a real shame as I was so looking forward to this series. Far more sitcoms fail than succeed they are incredibly hard t write and I'm sure Beesley and Morris will be back.
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- WissenswertesThe series was created by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, who were notable for producing the E4 comedy television series The Inbetweeners.
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