glasgow1975

Yet another in the long line of awful, borderline insulting 'Scotch' or 'British' episodes of US tv.

Ionn Gruffydd is Welsh, and is capable of a decent Scottish accent, so I can only assume he was directed to lay it on thick. The bar maid and sisters were awful, the barmaid especially sounded Irish and it wasn't until I noticed the Saltire bunting I realised it was meant to be set in Scotland at all. No small town in Scotland looks like the obvious New York side street set they filmed on. Adding a red post box and a red phone box is the laziest trope in tv. Those phone boxes are now incredibly rare. I kept expecting them to drive a red London bus past too! Chucking in some sheep really was Brigadoon nonsense.

I just wish US tv would stop doing this lazy crap.

Firstly it's hilarious the featured review mocks the father's terrible wig. Which is in fact the actor's real hair... That said the American accents are indeed terrible, the twins acting is insufferable, the CGI and greenscreen has been done as cheaply as possible and it shows. There's even a talking rat for goodness sakes! It's entirely populated with clichés - cod Shakespearean dialogue, upper class twits, optimistic can do Yanks, picturesque Romany caravans and castles... Unless you're watching with kids I'd definitely skip this bad adaptation.

In the UK this was shown as 2 feature length episodes which made it drag somewhat. I imagine 4 bitesize episodes made it more palatable for the US market.

Where to start? From the terrible accents, to the complete disregard for actual protocol, they could have been excused if it was in any way shape or form, funny... it just isn't. Not satire, not laugh out loud, just completely dull, dated, and uninspired writing. Dreadful gay stereotyping thrown in for good measure.