King Gary

This was a very carefully crafted mockumentary on life in darkest Essex. Very strong ensemble playing, carefully paced and a brilliant script.

I loved it, this could be a very successful sitcom and has some elements of Benidorm. Tom Davis was brilliant and threw himself into the dead pan and ironic situations.

Just watched series 1 and it was really great, I'm not sure why but this series reminds me of Sorry with Ronnie Corbet, I think perhaps because he always started with a personal plan and then it went awry, either way I loved it

Series 2, it was very funny but they really upped the cringeworthy elements. This style of exaggerated mockumentary is not everyone's cup of tea, just like People Doing Nothing or Mandy, but for those that do this was great, I laughed out loud so this tells you something.

The script was both inventive and sharp, I say haters stay away!

I enjoyed the pilot and then the first series, 7/10 there were things I found irritating but then it was outweighed by the good.

However series two is abysmal, it almost went cartoony, the wife is absolutely horrific to watch, the mannerisms, plus her and Gary seem to really push this ridiculous accent and dialogue in parts it's awful, she has these awful facials and situations that are just awful, she is a real detriment to the show and it'd have been better played a bit less ridiculously and bit more natural.

Think the accents and script went downhill in 2, was really weak and they tried to hard to be funny, just fell flat, think there's a few laughs but not much.

There's a plethora of top kid actors... he's not one

Rest of the cast is meh, average at best, not sure having romesh was good or bad, but he had funny parts.

It could redeem itself but I genuinely detested the second series, I understand the choice for daft dialogue but the voices are just stupid.

I watched the first episode on Friday and I had to go to IPlayer and watch the rest I couldn't resist. Chock full of of great actors, witty, excellent scripts and great pace. It's a good way to unwind after a long week, feel-good comedy that rightly deserves at least two more series. I have been laughing all day because of this and you can't have too much of that in your life.

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.

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!