Damned

Holy moly what a gem this show is! I stumbled upon it on the streaming service Stan, and have just finished watching the first season. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found it so easy to watch. I personally found the style of humour to genuinely be very funny. It's very witty, black, sassy, serious, it's my jam <3 Damned finds the funny in social services. I love each character and their oddities. I love the awkward moments. This is coming from someone who enjoys those awkward moments on Peep Show haha - and on that note, the actress who plays Dobby is in this show Damned! Such a pleasant surprise :) Any who, I am really looking forward to starting the second season of this show, and highly recommend it to others. I had to write a review here, as there are only 8 here so far, and there should be more. I do really hope that this show gets discovered and enjoyed by more people. It's certainly worthy of the recognition! All the best and happy watching :)

I have no idea why I picked this up, but I recognized Jo Brand from "Would I Lie to You" so I gave it a go. Poignant at times, funny with dry, bawdy British wit, this is a show about overwhelmed, underfunded and understaffed social workers in a working-class London district where far too many gorilla have terrible life skills. Sometimes people do something unexpected and respond positively to the social workers' aid, and it's always a charming moment. They deal with child abuse, violent marriages, migrants with an uncertain future, families with a member transitioning to their preferred gender, and so on.

And yet it's also a comedy, more of character interactions than gags. Sometimes you do laugh, and sometimes you wince in commiseration.

I wish there were more seasons. The writing is rich and the scenes are filled with humanity.

When I saw the first episode I thought, great another bland, poorly written, dramedy, but give it time to grow on you and you quickly realise what a well observed, well acted piece of work it actually is, almost every comedy show I love I didn't like my first taste of, but over a year after seeing the first episode as has always been the case something made me come back to this show and I am very glad I did, it's allot better than it gets credit for.

Comedic and also touches on difficult issues. Therefore cancelled! Just like Motherland! BBC can be a bit disappointing..

This is one of my all time favorites. It's so funny and well written and you really get a sense of who each character is. So bummed this got cancelled I reached out to see if they shopped it around and apparently no one wanted to pick it up. I wish Netflix or Hulu would pick up the two seasons so more people could see this. It never aired here in America which absolutely does not make sense. This is a hoot! Definitely check it out if you haven't seen it.