King Gary

I thought the plot, the actors, the dialogue, the comedy and witty-ness involved made up all the right elements to make a true, comedy gold series. Shame it's been taken down from iplayer already, but showed family and friends it whilst it was available to view and laughed hard every time i watched it! FANTASTIC!

The underlying driver in the plot here is Gary Kings need to be seen as 'top dog' in the suburban cul de sac where he lives. Much merriment at his expense ensues as his various schemes are shown up for the vacuous and pointless shows of wealth and status that they are. Good laughs to be had here!

The first series was really good and all the main characters have their individual moments of brilliance. The King family are middle class people's worst nightmare; a working class family who have come into or made money buy don't have the class and decorum for middle class life.

The second series was even funnier than the first series. The new neighbour makes the King Family look like neighbours from heaven.

I really enjoy this show and think it's a massively underrated show of comedic genius.

Great writing and performances in this great show, and what is not seen too much these days, really on the ball visual comedy. The two leads are outstanding with a great ensemble cast in support. The first one of the series is the best but the others, and the pilot, which I caught up with after, are also very good. Great soundtrack too, the art of matching the perfect tune to the linking action is well realised here. King of comedy!

Tom Davis quite explicitly wanted to create a "working class comedy that doesn't punch down" and in King Gary, boosted up to series mode after a charming pilot in 2018, manages the brief quite admirably. Bolstered by a strong cast of comedy legends (particularly the hypnotically mannered performance of Laura Checkley and the evergreen Neil Maskell) the absurd scenarios, cringing observations about contemporary British culture and cartoonish foolishness doesn't always hang together terribly well but the core of it is the relationship between Gary and Terri. It's got a rare amount of heart and character beneath the crass foolishness that keeps me coming back for more.