This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

First, the ebook "An Idiot Abroad" can download free at : http://ebook-hunter.com/an-idiot-abroad-by-karl- pilkington_599b1d9e6f7b31396922736c/As a concept, the show is great. Miserable, small-headed Manc going around the world's most prestigious and cultural locations moaning about them all. If you can just ignore the occasional blatant contrivance and enjoy the show for what it is, you'll love it

I like Carl feel sorry for him wish he could send is so called friend Ricky to places and have the things he does to him done to him would be fun. I think that would be a funny watching Ricky get kidnapped and thrown in a car with a hood over his head. Then make him walk the China wall jump off of things. Have to eat strange food and sleep in worst places. Send him to the slums of the world instead of the wonders. I bet Carl could come up with many ideas how to do to Ricky I would laugh so much, it would be better then the idiot abroad anyday Carl would have so much fun thinking of new ways to torture ricky they could dump him him in Mexico and have him sell oranges and sleep on the streets.

I've never really cared about Ricky Gervais until this show. Now I really really dislike him! Creating a show for the pure purpose of insulting someone who he (Rick) perceives below him and to make fun of them... that's pretty despicable and is in the end going to cost Ricky dearly in his career, as he strikes me as someone who will continue stretching it until it breaks. The more fun to see that this show actually is incredibly enjoyable, but for completely different reasons that RG intended.Ricky seems to see himself as someone who the rest of the world has to look up to, purely because of his fame (and because he thinks no end of himself) . And that's the reason why he thinks he can get away with trying to degrade someone for his own (yet public) amusement. Ricky is arrogantly assuming that he has the right to be teaching Karl something that Karl -should normally know-. Actually, in some way he is. Karl is experiencing all the memorable moments of travel that everybody in hindsight enjoys and tells their friends and relatives about when they get back home. It turns out, the bad intentions of Ricky, turn into a good thing for Karl. The stuff we tell people from our travels are not the things that went well, but the things that went wrong! So... great, I guess! Karl might seem not to have been around much, yet he is perceiving his surroundings with an incredible clarity, an astounding neutrality, and in a way, he's not passing judgment tainted by his culture's preconceived notions about the places he visits. In stead he judges his surroundings and the people on the basis of his own every day, here and now, way of life.That gives an incredibly refreshing view of cultures and other people that you don't usually see in travel programs. Karl is able to quickly spot the core of the subject, peeling every issue like an onion and making a quick and witty commentary about it that is spot on! His views of people and culture are practical, straight forward, simplified (yet no way simple) and no nonsense. That's is the beauty of Karl's mind, who, in a moment of tension between him and Ricky actually subjects even Ricky to the hammer of his straight forward intellect when he clarifies something Ricky misunderstood about Karl.Karl had mentioned that "You are better off living in the hole, looking at the palace, than living in the palace looking at the hole...". The meaning of this escaped Ricky and Ricky was quick to try to physically put Karl in the "hole" Ricky thought Karl wanted to be in. That Karl wasn't literally speaking escaped Ricky.Not only did Karl really enjoy his night in said "hole" he was forced to sleep in, (back at ya Ricky!) but Karl actually in so few words did what he does best, as he probably unintentionally summed up their intended parasitic relationship in that profound comment: Ricky is living in the palace looking at the hole, while Karl is in the hole looking at the palace.And yes, Karl is ways better off with that! By being aloof, Ricky can only look on in daft amusement as Karl is actually having the time of his life, something that will forever enrich him as a person.Thanks Karl, you are (the only person) who makes this show truly enjoyable! Ricky is not the star here, nor is he in any way needed to make this thing enjoyable. I would gladly watch any travel show Karl is in, where as Ricky could be pulled off the air permanently, just to do the world a favor.Go Karl, and don't let them get to ya!

I figured I'd check this show out on my Netflix this weekend, as I love Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant. I now absolutely love Karl P:) He is absolutely endearing, he might not like to hear that, but I loved this show. We watched the whole three series in one weekend! I did feel bad for him in the third series, I think Warwick was a little hard on him. I felt like we didn't get as much Karl in the third series, although I suppose that was the point is seeing how he interacted with Warwick. Don't think this third series was as funny as the first two, they changed the premise a bit and it wasn't as much fun as the first two. I liked experiencing those places with him and he made my husband and I laugh to fits. Love this show thank you.