I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

You may remember when Channel 4 was celebrating its 25th birthday they broadcast Comedy Showcase, a series of one-off comedy shows, and I immediately recognised this title, I was interested to see how it would be turned into a series. It sticks to the same format, Rob Black (Daniel Mays, replacing Rory Kinnear) is the ordinary love songs complication album arranger who talks to the audience about his experiences. He split up with his girlfriend Linsey (Miranda Raison), and she is getting married to pop star Duncan from Blue (Duncan James), and not only is he invited, its on TV, and he needs a Plus One. The only people he consoles with are his brother (EastEnders' Nigel Harman), sister Rebecca (Ingrid Oliver), and friends Paul (Steve John Shepherd) and Laura (Ruth Bradley). Rob is trying to get a beautiful date to upstage his ex-girlfriend, but there are more imagination sequences as to what would happen with each one, oh, and T4's Steve Jones is hosting a show about the couple's wedding. This is pretty funny, but I am not sure if there should be another series, I'm not even sure I'd want one, but definitely worth watching. Very good!

One of the best new comedy series I have seen in a while, very much in the Judd Apatow school of male modern neurosis. Think Forgetting Sarah Marshall but with a slightly ruder script. Oh and a bit of Scrubs/Family Guys style fantasy elements. Great looking cast, some genuine laugh out loud moments and while the odd gag does fall a little flat it more than makes up for it when one of it's big set piece jokes pays off. Mays is a joy to watch as Rob and Dunacan James is unexpectedly excellent - sending himself up to perfection. The supporting cast are all pulling their weight as well, Nigel Harman shows a gift for comedy we've not seen before, Ingrid Oliver as his sister has a wonderful acerbic wit and Ruth Bradley charms as his long suffering work colleague. Steve John Shepherd's character Paul however takes the prize for best of the bunch playing a character just about on the right side of bizarre. A really great performance.With a will they/won't they sub plot running throughout between Mays and Bradley, there's an unexpected tenderness in some of the scenes which may seem at odds with some of the more gross out elements of the script, yet instead enable us to care a lot more about the characters. A brilliantly funny comedy and a treat to watch.

Just when you think British 'comedy' TV can't get any worse and has hit rock bottom, you find there's a whole new bottom that you didn't know existed below where you thought the bottom was. And this is it. Where do you start? Perhaps with the monumentally unfunny, cliché-laden script. Then, there's a particularly hideous and deeply unlikeable cast. Of all the great actors unemployed at any one time, is this the best that the producers can come up with? The whole mixture is directed with negligible skill, and it's impossible to think that anyone over the age of 13 will find this even faintly amusing. Jokes about penises and wanking abound. Oh, great. Watching the show is a miserable and thankless task. And an utter waste of time for all concerned. 0 out of 10.

I'm not quite sure how this new series manages to fail so spectacularly. On the surface the set- up is funny, even some of the gags are funny - well, perhaps they were on paper. But the reality is miserable, forced and with no sense of comic timing whatsoever, which is odd given that there are a number of great actors involved (Daniel Mays, in particular). The beats and rhythms of comedy are missing and I couldn't work out whether this was the fault of the writer or director. However, the writer is responsible for thinking that cheap gags ironically mocking racism are funny and not understanding that British actors, as a rule, are not good at using expletives and still making the line funny. Watch the first episode only for the sight of Mays dressed as a giant panda.