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Karl Puschmann: Bleak new comedy Back is painfully funny
11 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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The cast of new comedy Back: Geoff McGivern, Penny Downie, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Louise Brealey.
The cast of new comedy Back: Geoff McGivern, Penny Downie, David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Louise Brealey.
Karl Puschmann is a senior entertainment writer and columnist for the New Zealand Herald.karl.puschmann@nzherald.co.nz@CritiKarl
The boys of Peep Show are back. Or, more accurately, the boys of Peep Show are back in a brutally funny new series called Back. Usually when a new show gets the old gang back
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Channel 4’s Back knows the provincial pub is Britain in microcosm This comedy series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb also has deep feeling for its boozer’s denizens. In the new series of
Back Stephen (David Mitchell) has left the residential hospital where he was being treated for the breakdown induced by his dastardly foster brother Andrew (Robert Webb), and has returned to the family pub, the John Barleycorn. Is he better? This isn’t clear. It’s hard to see beyond the misanthropy, which is fully intact, in spite of the therapy. Either way, he remains an utter chump. Aiming for chumminess with a delivery man, he tries to mimic the shaking of dice with his hands. But he can’t even get this right. I’m not going to use the w-word in my first paragraph, but the hard-to-misinterpret gesture in question has to do with, you know, self-pleasure.