Vicious

[LadyBeagleEyes]

Please, please no, what's with the canned laughter?
I'm cringing, and back in the 70's,
Ian Mackellen and Derek Jacobi, why just why?

I'm watching CrimeWatch as well now.

That woman with the glasses and the forms in the Job Centre is the type I've encountered many times.
I think it's realistic, if you don't laugh you'll cry.

I rather like it...

I turned it over as soon as they started on the rape jokes. And did not feel comfortable about the way they were treating their new neighbour - if he was a girl it would have been really inappropriate.

I love a camp 70s comedy and can get my tongue round a double entandre with the best of them, but this is all a bit...cod.

The laughter track is getting on my tits and it all feels a bit stagey but as 70s the one liners are chuckleworthy. But opening episodes of sitcoms are notoriously difficult to get right, so I might watch next week to see if it picks up, it hinted at the sense of wasted lives, regret and mutual dependency.

Totally crap

Won't be watching again

Deleted off planner !!

Loved it two of our finest Actors hamming it up like mad - classic

Not sure if rape 'joke' deliberate attempt at retro humour. Likewise them hitting on young male visitor.
Is this a post-modern satire on old-fashioned homosexual stereotypes? If so, it's on wrong channel for the wrong audience.
Both men are great actors but Jacobi gave me the creeps in that Halifax thing and he does it again here. Must be me.
But will watch next week. Agree some one-liners great but painful to watch. Canned laughter gets in the way of pathos though.

It was filmed on front of a live audience so the laughter is 'live'. I loved it and I cried with laughter when Ash opened the blinds - hilarious!

'Not sure if rape 'joke' deliberate attempt at retro humour.'

Ah, hadn't thought of that *rufussmum. DP and I both went when we heard the rape joke so I do hope it was a deliberate clunker.

I thought it was, as DP would say, 'mildly amusing'. Some of the bitching was pretty funny and the bit with the blinds was good. I love Frances de la Tour too. I think I'll probably stick with it.

I enjoyed it for what it was - pantomime. Corny, overacted, with a panto dame (or two).

Some very funny lines but a bit much...The Job Lot though - Absolutely had me roaring with laughter!

beertricks agree about the appalling rape 'joke' - let's hope there's no more like that.

That aside, I can see that 'Vicious' is going to be my guilty pleasure for the next 6weeks! I mean c'mon it's like the genetically mutated offspring of other 70's/80's sitcoms, it' like Are you being served meets Rising Damp meets The Golden Girls and what's with the kitchen door, reminds me of the diner where Starsky and Hutch would meet Huggy Bear.

(Derek Jacobi has morphed into Mr Humphries, I could practically hear him squealing 'Im free'!!)

lisaro you were right to mention panto, I'm not going to let them off completely, some lines were way too forced and panto-ish, would improve without that, a bit more subtlety please director.....

Brilliant cast, poor script and yes what's with the canned laughter.

I watched the first episode last night(recorded from last week). I laughed out loud at least twice.

I am going to watch last nights & see how it is.

As for The Job Lot. Oh god it was quite over the top but real at the same time. As a previous poster said if u didnt laugh u would cry.

My MIL said that gays don't like it as it's not a true portrayal, I don't see how that can be when the two main actors are gay.

Nobody could speak for the whole of 'the gays'. Anyway, my gay cousin loves it.

What has being gay got to do with enjoying the program?

If you're asking me, benjamin I'm responding to senses post above mine.

Well actually responding to her MIL.

Lisaro i too was talking about senses MIL.

Sorry not sure if it is an L or an i at the beginning of your name lisaro.

Ah, I see. It's an L . Lisaro.

Thanks.