The Reluctant Landlord

Another delightful piece from Romesh, proper funny stuff.

You can't write off a new series after a single episode, I wasn't blown away by it but I enjoyed it as an open minded fan of his stand up comedy. I will give it a fair chance and can see this has potential.

I'm often looking for shorter comedy shows that are different than the US norm, and British humor and locations can be quite interesting. I can like dry humor also, but Romesh comes over as extremely unlikeable, the type of person I would never want to be around, so I don't want to watch them either. Always rude, often insulting and laconic to the point of boredom, with supporting characters portrayed as daft, at best. I watched through 4 episodes to see if the tone or chemistry would improve, but no. Dropped.

Perfectly watchable translation of a stand-up style into a sitcom and although it wasn't a dazzlingly brilliant example of comedy, it was still a good bit of fun with a very likable protagonist.

It does annoy me when workplace sitcoms desperately try to make their business struggle against a technically better rival. I don't want them to be consistently failing or be that good but something in between.

The efforts to carry storylines over multiple episodes was misguided but didn't ruin it.

The child characters help.

Contrary to others I have found this series pretty good and can see it blossoming in the second series....