The Persuasionists - Ep 1: Cockney Cheese

[benjula]

yeah i saw that today, i still reckon it would have been rubbish.

[hobbsy]

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[bestdreamcatcher]

It was truly truly terrible. Everyone (Adam included) seemed desperate to be funny with the result that they weren't. At all. And th canned laughetr made me want to throw the TV out of the window. Some of te casting was bizarre and the characters.... oh I just can't go on.

What a shame.

Think I'll listen to dr Sexy to cheer myself up.

[cobblers]

I was part of the "live studio audience" when they filmed this episode, and it was genuinely a lot better before editing. Nothing ground breaking - the concept is good, but the slightly "slapstick" or "childish" writing and production made it a little cringeworthy in places, but when you tried to look past it, it wasn't a terrible show.

Richard Sandling was one of the warmup comedians that was there (I don't recall the other chaps name) and I think they did almost too good of a job - They were hilarious, and had the audience ready to throw out a belly laugh on a hair trigger, combined with the editing messing up the flow of the show, left a depressingly cheesy program.

I watched the episode last week it with my 14 year old sister, 10 years my junior. Even she rolled her eyes at a lot of it, and she watches "My super sweet sixteen" on MTV with genuine enthusiasm.

I desperately wanted this to be great, as I'm sure a lot of people on here did. But somebody took a decent concept, a decent bunch of actors, a couple of good jokes and managed to make a completely forgettable series from it.

[creationguysExposed]

To me, it was like 'When the Whistle Blows' except it wasn't funny.