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This show is a major disappointment. Unlike the other commenter, I like (and have watched loads of) British comedies; I was primed to like this, but it absolutely falls flat.

The major problems are that

• the female lead is massively unlikable (the character is an “I hide my insecurities behind my BIG PERSONALITY!” type, but she pushes it so far that she’s grating); and

• the show relies on several implausibilities to push the plot forward, not the least of which is that

  • the man is famous enough to be accosted by fans everywhere, yet the woman — who works at a cinema! — doesn’t recognize him when they start talking; and
  • there’s no way that someone who has enough ambition and talent to make it as an actor would be drawn to someone who has no core, no spark/sparkle, no ambition, no creativity, and who is significantly less attractive (couples are almost always matched in attractiveness — an observation made by sociologists — and when they aren’t, the one without power is never the one who’s less good-looking).

I virtually always watch everything to the end, but by the start of Ep 5, I was done. If you want a comedy with quirky characters, skip this and instead try Rosehaven (whose female lead, Australian comic Celia Pacquola, does pull off big-personality-is-compensating-for-insecurities), Detectorists, The Letdown, or Fisk.