sarahjuliet

On paper this very British young adult comedy is made up of so many familiar parts, but the writing is fresh, unpredictable and often riotously funny. The principal roles are perfectly cast - the housemates completely believable as former student friends growing in different directions, and the weirdness, grounded in familiar situations, seems completely natural. I quickly learned I could trust the writers to land each embarrassing situation so I could relax and enjoy the ride. A couple of familiar faces are reassuring but don't distract from the main characters. And whoever chose the music had a LOT of fun - the soundtrack is excellent. After the first run through I missed its company, so I watched it again.

We are rehoming a cat tomorrow, I'm sorely tempted to change his name. At least I'll get him a laser pointer.

I knew this was going to turn silly, but three glasses of wine couldn't quite prepare me. Covid made us all do weird things, but how the producers of this craziness managed to sign up Halle Berry is beyond me. The story is codswallop, and anything even vaguely really still look like CGI. Still, it's admirable quite how far the cast embrace the ridiculousness, it's played dead straight and for that I loved it. Whether or not this becomes a cult classic is anyone's guess, maybe it's too long, but I'd love a future where drunk physics students in astronaut costumes shout the lines back at the screen. To be embraced if you're in the mood for silly.