Amazon.co.uk Review
One of those series that you just know will seem horribly out of date about 10 seconds after the final episode concludes, this drama about a London-based Internet start-up company nevertheless makes for some seriously compulsive viewing. For that one can presumably thank producer Tony Garnett who, as the man responsible for
This Life and
The Cops, knows all about laying traps for that most elusive of creatures, the lesser-spotted
zeitgeist. In fact, at first glance it looks like Garnett may have been trying just a little too hard as the first episode introduces us to a cast of characters that includes a bitchy lesbian, a mixed race couple and a bespectacled computer geek who likes to roller-skate around the office naked. But by the third entry it is clear that, beneath all the flashy camerawork and Internet jargon, lie such reliably entertaining soap-drama war horses as The Conniving Harridan and The Horny Git. Whether the show will develop into a
This Life-style phenomenon remains to be seen but the end product should certainly prove essential viewing for those people who don't get enough bitchiness and office politics in their own workplace. --
Alan Smithee
Synopsis
Following the trials and tribulations of some friends and colleagues who who all earn their living from the Internet.