Mammoth

Only reviewing this to comment on a review below from Shade Grenade. What the f is wrong with you? Did you have a bad childhood or are you simply still a child? Such a damning review with hypercritical tendencies I feel sure you are damaged and need help!

My review is simply, this is a cracking shoe with good comedic references. I mean it's not side splitting stuff but just good clean harmless fun, I will never understand these weird reviews that must somehow make people feel like they are some over paid Hollywood critic.

Just calm down, sit in a darkened room, cry a little and then go out and make some real friends, this life is going to be tough with an attitude like that!

Arriving largely without fanfare, I caught this show on iPlayer. Interesting show which plays to a large extent as a drama with the 'back from the dead' storyline largely in the back ground. Indeed you see nothing of Mammoth's return from the dead but catch up with him a few months later. The 'fish out of water' plot has been done many times before and this show offers no real new twists. However, it does have heart and offers a few laughs along the way. Hopefully it will get a series.

Toby Mammoth is caught in an avalanche in 1979, he's perfectly frozen and preserved, untill he's brought back to life in present day, Toby has to readjust to a whole new life.

Think of a spoof version of Life on Mars, I think this really work, very funny. I'm so glad to see that a full series followed, it deserved it, it certainly built on it. It certainly has a relevance in today's climate, it's Inoffensive, but definitely pokes fun at 1970's attitudes.

I can't wait to see further episodes, great seeing what Tony gets away with, such as hitting on mums at parents evening and running over a pupil.

This had me chuckling from start to finish, it was well made, and very well acted, Mike Bubbins did a cracking job here, as did Sian Gibson and Joseph Marcell.

Welsh humour at its finest. At a time where it seems that sitcoms have died, this cut through.

8/10.

Mammoth looks like a pilot. Creator Mike Bubbins is a former PE Teacher, rugby player and a superfan of the 1970s.

He plays Tony Mammoth, caught in an avalanche in 1979 and thawed out. He is adjusting to life in 2021 where everyone thought he is dead.

Tony is back teaching at his old school. His old friends such as Roger now live in an old people's home. Tony even has a therapist trying to help him adjust to the 21st century.

Tony is a dinosaur or a woolly mammoth. He his in a world of mobile phones and health & safety.

This is basically Life on Mars in reverse. A comedy and not a crime drama. Also Tony is no Neanderthal. He might use Hai Karate aftershave but he comes to the aid of a school kid who cannot afford a sports kit. He makes the rest of the class play topless.

It might work as a series but you do wonder how long can Tony hold off from the benefits of modern life. I mean has no one told him just how much porn he can download on his mobile phone!

Mammoth stubbornly sticks to the values of the 70s and for that he must be applauded. Great comedy and fantastic references - Marathon bar anyone? Let's have some more.

Life on Mars? - pah!