Toast of Tinseltown

A continuation of Toast of London - the same disorder continues into Tinseltown. One-off episode characters are good additions as the contrast between the UK and US can be mocked, but the new characters that span the series are simply irritating. Repeated jokes and callbacks, Toast is an excellent character in the new setting, and whilst still not hilarious, certainly amusing and wacky enough for easy entertainment.

This show is like a sine wave in that it's up then down. But being a big Matt Berry fan I'll ignore the downs. I have only watched through episode 2. Crazy amount of cameos as well as some of Berry's former collaborators. But I was most happy when I got to hear again, "Hello Steven, this is Clem Fandango. Can you hear me?"

What's with the one star and ten star reviews?! If it's "I liked it, ten stars," why are we using a 10-point system? It's not a 1 star show either, man, sheesh. It's thoughtful and humorous, and has Larry David appear in the first two minutes. Come on. Ten stars tho? How about saving that for something transcendent and amazing and, well, perfect... I always enjoy Stephen Toast (and pretty much anything Matt Barry is in) so I'm biased in giving it an 8, but if you like absurd, exaggerated comedy- aka British humor- it's probably worth your time.

Toast heads to Hollywood, landing a part in the new star wars movie, but until that time he has to make his way, that involves acting, training and of course voice overs.

Overall, I quite enjoyed it, in real terms, it's taken me almost eighteen months to watch the complete series, there is something in that, whereas the original series I have seen many times over.

The best thing about Toast of Tinseltown of course is Matt Berry, and he is great, if the show comes back I'd love to see the setting switch back to The UK, I'm not quite sure The Hollywood setting works.

There are several funny scenes throughout, but I'd argue the best of them come with the show's originals, Ed, Ray Purchase, Danny Bear and of course the wonderful Clem Fandango. There are some big names to watch out for, I'm not sure they help drive the humour, or are simply there as a big name, make your own minds up.

It's surreal, it's even more off the scale than the original series, sometimes it works, sometimes, like in the fifth episode, it's just baffling.

I get why some raved about it, and why some hated it, in the scale of when it was made and how, it's decent.

7/10.

It's a good show, it certainly has some very funny moment's. Matt Berry is great once again as Steven Toast. If you like Toast of London you should enjoy it.

Toast of London is the better show for sure, but this is a worthy follow up.