Sex Box Channel 4 review | Pubics cube

Channel 4 So you’ll be familiar with Sex Box, part of Channel 4‘s Campaign for Real Sex season where real couples bang on TV then talk to sexperts about it immediately afterwards. Everyone thinks they are familiar at least. Many expected Dick in a Box and it’s not quite that. The box is real enough – an… Read More

Documentary, Miscellaneous

Channel 4, relationshit, sex

September 25, 2013

London Irish episode one review | You only get dealt one hand

Channel 4 As the black Irish bastard you love to hate Aerial Telly is given pause by any new Mick show. London Irish arrives threatening all kinds of mayhem. The horses running through council estates and men in platform shoes being arrested for bombings Alan Partridge identified are an ever present spectre. What desperate minstrelism… Read More

British comedy, British drama

Channel 4, despair, drugs, relationshit, sex

September 10, 2013

Top Boy series 2 episode 4 review | Albanians! Woddyeloike?

Channel 4 It’s a mixed bag all-round in the second season finale of Top Boy. Sully grieves for Psycho Mike for all of 35 seconds before deciding that the best way to honour his memory is to embark on a suicidal attempt to retrieve the drugfood back from the Albanians with Dushane. It’s what he… Read More

British drama

Channel 4, drugs, gangs, police, Top Boy

September 7, 2013

Bouncers series 2 episode one review | Jesmond Jim

Channel 4 “I deal drugs, enjoy violence, fuck with good people for no reason, turn them away and then let in huge groups of chav pieces of shit because they remind me of me, then act surprised when I get bottled and they burn the place to the ground”. This is a sentence you don’t… Read More

Documentary

Bouncers, Channel 4, despair, violence

September 3, 2013

Top Boy series 2 episode 3 review | Silly Sully

Channel 4 “If you’ve been affected by any of the issues on Top Boy then maybe you need a change of lifestyle”. Thanks, Channel 4! In keeping with the reputation of the African-American inhabitants of New Orleans, Psycho Mike and Sully could fuck up a wet dream. A simple contract killing was the deal and… Read More

British drama

Channel 4, crime, despair, drugs, gangster, police, Top Boy

August 27, 2013

Top Boy series 2 episode 2 review | The king of dogshite

Channel 4 Nature abhors a vacuum and you know who else does? The users and suppliers of illegal narcotics. Top Boy‘s first episode climax created such a vacuum with the shooting of Irish Joe. Gentlemen of the criminal fraternity will look to fill that vacuum with the quickness. Albanians stole the Irishman’s drugfood after shooting him… Read More

British drama

Channel 4, drugs, gangs, Top Boy

August 20, 2013

Top Boy series 2 episode 1 review | Top of the Plops

Channel 4 When I first saw the title I thought Top Boy was a live-action reimagining of Top Cat, and man was I ever disappointed with the 2011 drama. It turned out to be set in a place called Hackney-blud which, I would learn, is somewhere in Londung and has a scrote problem like wouldn’t… Read More

British drama

Channel 4, drugs, gangster, Top Boy

August 4, 2013

Southcliffe Channel 4 review | What a waste, army dreamers

Channel 4 It’s just a market town is Southcliffe, a sleepy one at that (in my experience there are two kinds of market town – sleepy and bustling, nothing in-between.) So the very last thing you’d expect there is the kind of balls-out spree killing you see on the news once a year. And yet… Read More

British drama

Channel 4, despair, murder, serial killer, violence

August 1, 2013

Bad Sugar review | No schoolboy but I know what I like

Channel 4 In the shitcom form nothing much is new but Peep Show‘s P.O.V. shots and internal monologues that went directly into the heart of darkness that was Jeremy and Mark‘s stream of consciousness were a real innovation, with lethal writing and potent character mix that made it a joy, one of the modern British… Read More

British comedy

Channel 4, family

July 30, 2013

The Mill Channel 4 review | Ow, my balls

Channel 4 If you’re one of those people who hanker after a world before health and safety zealots wrapped our children in cotton wool then a few things: i) STFU, ii) kill yourself and iii) The Mill is the ideal program for you. They don’t worry about health and safety at the Quarry Bank Mill… Read More

British drama

Channel 4, despair

July 24, 2013

The Returned Channel 4 review | Series 1 finale

Channel 4 You have to admire the people of Shit’s Creek, Veyrier-du-Lac – Alpine outpost, home of The Returned. During these weeks of the dead of their small town rising to live among them a quiet stoicism has prevailed. Whether it’s their 4 years dead twin sister or their 7 years dead stomach eating subway… Read More

Foreign TV

Channel 4, despair, ghost, horror

July 2, 2013

The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles review

The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles Channel 4 Much has been written on The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles, Wesley Warren Jr and the contents of a man’s scrotum have not been subject to this much speculation since Adolf Hitler. One day Warren sat up in bed too quickly and caught his nads awkwardly which… Read More

Documentary

body shock, Channel 4

June 11, 2013