Black Adder.
Here we again follow Rowan Atkinson who is simply superb and I hope you get a sense of my enjoyment from the following review of the second series
Black Adder ran for 4 series but this review is about just the second.
The second series was set in the 16th century and follows Black Adder as he sucks up to queen bess and nearly, on several occassions, loses his head.
He and his manservant, the wonderfully dopey Baldrick set out to grab as much power as he can. If he can survive the treacherous court goings on and if he can survive Baldricks attempts to "help" him!
Series2
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1.Bells
2. Head
3. Potato
4. Money
5. Beer
6. Chains
The combined writing skills of Curtis, Ben Elton and Rowan Atkinson is simply sensational. The comedy and witty lines come thick and fast. It is ...
Well?I've done The Office Series 1, 2 and Xmas Special. I've done Extras series 1. I've dried up on Gervais/Merchant sitcoms?that is until last Monday, when the 'critically acclaimed' second series of Extras arrived in our shop windows. Any good though? You bet!
Series one saw Gervais manage to get the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Stiller, Patrick Stewart, Kate Winslet and of course Les Dennis to appear in a comedy about an television extra, Andy Millman (played by Gervais) who's a desperate man, doing whatever it takes to get himself noticed. At the end of the series, he'd successfully written a script about a workplace with an annoying boss (yes?the link with the Office is apparent) that the BBC had commissioned. Now we needed to know whether or not it would be any good?
With things looking to be on the up, they're instantly ...
So here's my review of the second series from the award winning the series The Office...and let me start with the wise words of David Brent...
"I froze your tears and made a dagger,
and stabbed it in my cock forever.
It stays there like Excalibur,
Are you my Arthur?
Say you are.
Take this cool dark steeled blade,
Steal it, sheath it, in your lake.
I'd drown with you to be together.
Must you breathe? Cos I need Heaven."
"Excalibur"; David Brent; 2003
Poetic brilliance......to some extent!
Series Two of the Office is again based around paper merchants Werham Hogg, and their Slough-based branch, which has now encorporated the Swindon branch. Yes, it's still the same style as before - a docu-comedy, with cringe-worthy boss David Brent still at large, but this time his equivelant at Swindon, Neil Godwin, is over ...
