Coming of Age

Coming of Age has very few redeeming factors about it, one being the surprisingly intriguing advert showing the main cast performing euphemisms for masturbating. For example one girl was shown flicking jellybeans to represent 'flicking the bean', and one of the boys was shown spanking a monkey with a table tennis paddle, for 'spanking the monkey'. Unfortunately the writers used up all their creative juices in that alone, and left the series bone dry.

The acting is poor, and the jokes are boring, bland and extremely predictable. The characters are one dimensional, something akin to how the cast of 'Two Pints of Larger' after the series had ran out of decent ideas; not a good look for a brand new show. The show runs on toilet humour, mentions to bodily functions and genitalia are supposed to bring in the majority of the laughter.

If you're a big fan of Two Pints of Larger, or a thirteen year old who giggles at 'naughty words', then this show might be for you. It had the potential to be half way decent but falls very short of the mark.

I heard about this gem on a worst programme list and was absolutely delighted to find that my instinct to give it a try led me to a hilarious and fresh comedy from BBC 3.

Every episode has it's moments but sprinkled throughout the three seasons are moments of pant pissing hilarity.

I implore everyone to check it out because it's one of the best televisual discoveries I've made.

This show is just so strange. It's an awful blend of childishness and lurid innuendo. It's just a string of poorly thought out jokes connected by a very loose plot. That's even hard to say. It's not really a plot. Character is scared of needles is not a plot.

The characters are both wildly inconsistent yet flanderised and near indistinguishable between episodes. The show seems to pretend that it's serialized but aside from a few episodes you could jump in anywhere and have no issues at all.

It had some great guest actors like Stephen K. Amos and. Miriam Margoles. They were both fantastic and could have been even better with a barely competent writer. I've watched it. I'm glad I did. I will never be watching it again. Go watch the inbetweeners.

For me, this show has single-handedly facilitated a complete loss of all faith and respect I had for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Now I recognise some people will like this show. I also recognise some people will not like this show. However, the current IMDb rating of 3.8 and the almost ABSOLUTE lack of positive reviews from other sources lead me to believe that most people despise this show. And as well they should.

The only reason I can think for its recommission is that it enables the BBC to tick its 'young' box and think nothing else about the matter.

The main problem I have with the show is that the writer simply cannot writer. Simple as that. As Charlie Brooker would say; 'It's like watching a play written by a dog'.

There is no storyline to each episode. Full-stop. In a show professing to be a unique, young insight into college life it, in reality, shows us nothing at all. It could have enthralled us with the intricacies of college relationships, politics and all the agony that comes with college life (Inbetweeners, anyone?)! Instead, the most utilised set is a shed.....yes a shed.......where the characters' sit, exchange euphemisms for sex, and occasionally talk to a cardboard cut-out of Jeremy Clarkson, who is no doubt appalled at the use of his effigy in a show quite so diabolical.

The irony is that for a show about college life, hardly any scenes are shot in the college (Sheds are far more interesting you see). Invariably, in the few college shots there are I tend to find the extras wandering about in the background of far more interest and attraction than the principle cast (does anyone else find this?!). Perhaps for this reason the producers thought it best to shoot the core elements of each episode in a shed, eliminating all other more interesting stimuli so that we have to focus on the characters' forced, poorly delivered diatribe.

The characters are flat, undeveloped, devoid of any charm and seem to soley exist to give me something to hate and to effectively terminate the future careers' of the cast.

Coming of age has no redeeming features, not one. I take it as a personal insult to the license player and to the intelligence of young and old alike.

I'm 23. I was a student not so long ago. This does not show student life. It does not show comedy. I am simply lost for anymore words. I think I'll go weep in the corner now.

Be ashamed of yourself BBC

This show is in a word... pathetic. The jokes are terrible and the characters are highly annoying! The young girl, Jaz, has such a irritating voice, I would practically get down on my knees and beg her to stop talking in that ridiculous way! Also, the dumb character, DK, is the most annoying character ever to appear on TV. His rapping really aggravates me.

The first time I watched this show, I was with a couple of mates and they said to me "If you like Two Pints Of Lager, you'll love this". With me being a big fan of Two Pints, I regret to say, I watched this. My mates were giggling like 7 year olds, whilst I didn't even crack a smile.

I hate this show with all my heart and soul, it just makes me so angry that people actually prefer this to Two Pints Of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps because without Two Pints, this show wouldn't have even been made because all this show is doing is ripping-off Two Pints.

When the Two Pints Comic Relief Special was on, I was really excited, with it being a new series, but to my horror, Coming Of Age characters were in the show! What irritated me the most was when Gaz and DK did 'The Biscuit Rap' which Gaz and Jonny sang in the musical special.

If I could give this a 0, I would definitely do it!

Worst show this decade!