Us & Them

I have seen more than my share of UK comedies translated to the US. For every Steptoe and Son (Sanford and Son) there's a Coupling. For every The Office, there's a The Inbetweeners. I thought I had seen the worst that could be done... until just now. I found this monstrosity by accident today and there's not enough mind-bleach in the world to take it away again. Gavin and Stacey was a beautiful, gentle, hilarious comedy. This? This has taken the basic conceit and stripped away everything that made it work. Was this some condition of taking James Corden off our hands? "Jimmy, come over, do a late night talk show, we love you - one thing though, we want you to agree to us destroying what you love most. Just sign here." It's taken us over fifty years to forgive Dick Van Dyke for his accent in Mary Poppins; this may take millennia.

First off, if you're gonna rip it off, then do it well and have good acting in it, this will join the long list of rubbish rip-offs of classic British shows

Don't waste your time with this robotic remake of a very good U.K. show. Go to the original. I really don't have more to say about this show because I don't want to give anything away. I've read the other reviews and you can clearly tell that some are written by people with a vested interest in the show. I can't stand poor remakes and transparent reviews. Apparently I need more lines but I really don't want to give anything away in the show but I can tell you that if you watch the original you have to take into account that it is a U.K. show so a lot of the jokes are geared to a British audience. Again they want more lines so I have to fill space. I'm sorry about all the filler but in order to warn you about the horrors of a bad remake and U.S. copycat shows I have to make up something.

Wasted Cast becuz of bad script. The pilot is actually not too bad, but then it all went down hill from there.

You yanks need to leave the U. K. stuff alone! Do you really have nothing better to do than recreate amazing comedies? Come up with her own ideas! You obviously have no more of your own.

I mean seriously if you're going to create something at least come up with an original script!! What's the point of recreating something you could just Watch in its glory!

American remakes have no originality, as well as being wooden i'm not actually getting the reason for the comedy! The reason Gavin and Stacey is funny it's because of its origin!

I swear to God you Yanks just ruin everything!

People don't waste your time just watch Gavin and Stacey!