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Between The Missing and this offshoot something is not quite right.

I think that the lead actor suffered a stroke or some similar medical episode. He always seemed to have a dragging/paralysed arm. This was totally hilarious when he had to do running or action sequences. I think that the writers introduced a "limp" to try and compensate for this. He is a shambling wreck ffs and is being exploited by the production company. Unwatchable.

A quite average film.

A typical American film All the "locked in a cabin" cliches.

Meh.

I wouldn't normally watch what I initially took to be another overblown teen/YA series, but I saw that it had Neil Maskell and Craig Parkinson in it so I gave it a go. Sadly not even Maskers and Parky can do anything with this drivel.

Just perfect. A little gem of a film. It needs no more words from me.

This is one for people who don't watch Superhero movies or Space Opera. Was this all imagined in one or the other's character's minds? Definitely a psychological presentation which I enjoyed immensely without totally understanding the film as a whole. I need to watch this again.

The gangster and his wife look like they escaped from the Adams Family/The Munsters from the 60s. Cliched American script and direction. Zero out of ten.

I'm English so I like British comedy/farce, with lots of physical gags and lots of silly goings on. This is not quite up to the standards of Fawlty Towers or earlier British farce but is much funnier than the American sitcoms where all the characters are queing up to to spout their set-up and obvious not very funny one-liners.

Tovey's character is an all open mouthed mumbling, bumbling cardboard cliche. And as for Carvel's character with his lank hair and funny voice couldn't decide whether he was Fagin or Uriah Heep.

Tired and repetitive. The Borat character was mildly amusing in the first film. For about half an hour. There was nothing there that was even remotely funny and this second film reinforces that. I am so reminded of the meerkats in the TV ads (they are unfunny and irritating also). This bloke has turned a ten minute sketch into a very unfunny career. A bit like Steve Coogan.

It seems as if the script bots have phoned this in from the 50s. The writer is a 75 year old and it shows. I was not really impressed by the first episode but decided to give the second episode a try. What did I hear? " I'm making tea. How do you like your tea?" As if anyone anywhere has spoken those words in real life for a century at least.

This is one of the few programmes that I always make a point of watching ( actually the only one). The various comedy shows of these chaps and their ilk largely passed me by, with any accidental viewing reinforcing my view that the Golden Age of comedy was when one was Eleven. The last episode I stopped watching before the end. Ooh look we're all grown up talking about testicular cancer etc. This completely killed it stone dead for me. Neither the time nor place for such earnest right on PC proselytizing.

This is so insulting to the viewer. It is so amateurly scripted and directed. You can see the presenters queueing up to say their lines, inane and risible as they are. This is something that I would have expected to see as a six year old on kids TV back in the 60s. The fact that this is being shown this on primetime evening TV now shows how much the media has "dumbed down"

I was totally getting into and enjoying this programme. BUT every time that the senior detective appearred we could not stop laughing. At the time there was a height requirement to join the police . And the Kenneth Connor look-a-like is just risible.

Great British comedy but I am at a loss why so many Americans enjoy this. This is not really the cliched US fare where actors queue up to spout set up one liners which are telegraphed beforehand and are usually not very funny at all. There is far more going on in British comedy vis a vis wordplay and puns and references that Johhny Foreigner would never undesstand. And the the physical comedy and slapstick which Americans do not understand because they take everything so literally. Americans do not understand self-deprecating humour, nor absurd over the top farce etc etc etc.

A great little film for grown-up fans of Sci-Fi that does not aim for the cliched comic book teen market.

This is not Chrisopher Nolan but a good effort. The title gives us a clue and I guessed the ending about half-way through.

Just a few minutes into the first episode I heard someone say something along the lines of "stay away. she's a witch" and was transported back to when the Monty python team deconstructed these types of films "she's a witch. burn her" etc. I see peasants living in mud and tavern fights where people are having limbs lopped off (it's just a scratch you b*******. come here and take it like a man). I expected Cleese or Palin to hove into view at any moment (this is also why I could never watch "Game of Thrones"). The risible dialogue could have been bettered by a class of ten year olds. And the casting of a "person of colour" as Arthur is beyond belief.

How all these great actors were persuaded to get involved in this travesty is beyond belief. It is NOT remotely funny at all. Is it supposed to be a comedy drama/satire/slapstick? It just not work at all on any level as it is presented. Go watch Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) instead.

Todd and Sellers both give remarkable performances as men whose lives start to unravel mentally and emotionally. It must have come as quite a shock to the audience back in 1960.

See my title. When someone tries sooo hard to be cool and edgy and relevant and woke and has completely missed the bus. Execrable.

Wen ah worra lad we ad Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns comedy pastiches an ah thowt that they wor grand and nivver expected to see t'like agin. Ah wor reyt. Incidentally I watched the first episode convinced that I was watching Claudia Jessie. I saw from the cast list that it was Charlotte Hope. Both stunning women.

I am not a great fan of sit-coms and especially not from America. (They strike me as being too formulaic set-em-up-and-knock-em-down one-liners type of patter ). This was something much more, and transcends being called genre. This was a great script The actors really clicked with each other and the writer. I would like to see more of these two characters but not as the usual risible sit-com fare. which would flog them to death for 13 episodes for 20 seasons!!! A 90 min feature would be nice.

I hate American comdy shows as being so cheesy and formulaic set em up and knock em down one liners. I prefer the English more physical farce as in Fawlty Towers with lots of rushing around and silly goings o .

Oh look we've run around the haunted fairground and solved the case . BUT THEN the corpse opens his eyes. Shock horror! Eat your heart out Bela Lugosi.

I have to say that I don't watch a lot of American shows because of the cliched scripts and plastic acting but this really is the pits of the pits of the pits. Minus 10. Please don't make me watch/hear any more, I'd rather eat my own face.

Apart from being so derivative it's too dark cinematically, I can't see what is going on. The sound is muffled, I can't hear what the characters are saying.