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The third series of The League of Gentlemen takes the portmanteau horror approach of their Christmas Special and extends it daringly across the entire six episodes. Here, each half-hour instalment is a self-contained story featuring various familiar and less well-known inhabitants of Britain's most accursed town, Royston Vasey. But each individual tale leads--horribly, inevitably--towards a single shocking event, the full circumstances of which are only realised in a final, macabre twist. It's all far too bleak to be called comedy, just too damn funny to be anything else. This is a team who have always defined their own rules, nowhere more boldly than here.
Opening with a funky new theme tune, the six episodes feature--among others--ex-con Pauline and Mickey in a touching tale of transvestisism; Lance the one-armed comedy shop owner yearning for a new limb; foul-tempered Geoff Tipps trying to make it as a stand-up comic in "Lundun"; some eye-popping fetishist behaviour at the local B&B; seedy goings-on in the massage parlour; and, most horrendously of all, the dreaded return of Papa Lazarou. It all proved too much for some viewers--too grotesque, too offbeat, too surreal. Packed with knowing references to obscure movies and filled with the most unpleasant characters ever to grace a "sitcom", this is certainly an uncompromising series, and one that invites fascinated speculation on what dark delights await in their upcoming movie.
On the DVD: The League of Gentlemen, Series 3 two-disc set maintains the high standard of extra features established by the previous series. Here there's more raucous "Local Gossip" with the four gents on the first disc, plus a second disc of insightful background material including: a 30-minute making of documentary by Adam Buxton (of Adam and Joe); a candid video diary from Steve Pemberton; a truly dire magic tutorial from Dean Tavalouris (Reece Shearsmith); Joby Talbot's music score; an interview with costume designer Yves Barre; outtakes and deleted scenes; plus a Mike King Enterprises editing suite, enabling you to muck about with the ending sequence and ruin it completely. --Mark Walker
Special Features
Local Gossip (Commentary)
The Making of Series 3 by Adam Buxton
End Sequence Storyboards
Edit Your Own End
The Dean Tavalouris Lecture
All About Yves (Costume designer Yves Barre)
Local People
Out-takes
Isolated Music Score
Steve Pemberton's Video Diary
SFX Footage
Missing (Deleted Scenes)
Gallery
The Making of Series 3 by Adam Buxton
End Sequence Storyboards
Edit Your Own End
The Dean Tavalouris Lecture
All About Yves (Costume designer Yves Barre)
Local People
Out-takes
Isolated Music Score
Steve Pemberton's Video Diary
SFX Footage
Missing (Deleted Scenes)
Gallery
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not the same, but just as good,
This review is from: The League Of Gentlemen - Series 3 (2002) [DVD] (DVD)
The 3rd series of the League wasn't received too well when first broadcast, as I remember. Boring, no sketches, too surreal, too sick, no Tubbs and Edward. Just a few of the initial criticisms the show faced. Maybe people weren't ready, or maybe the weeklong gap between each episode was too much to notice the links and references between each story.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The League Of Gentlemen - Series 3 (2002) [DVD] (DVD)
I, like so many, am a dedicated fan of The League Of Gentlemen & have been since the radio series. The first two series of the televison show were hilariously funny & gained an even bigger legion of fans. However, I've come across many people who find this 3rd series to be a disappointment. Believe me, this is not the case.Granted, The League have done something different. They're far to innovative to want to just do more of the same & instead opted to do this - an ultra-dark, intelligent, inspiring, hilarious & original comedy series. Each episode follows a main plot & has two smaller plots running along side it. It all happens over the same time period & ends in the same place. Every episode exposes a little bit more of the climax & you're treated to many twists & turns on the way. Gone are the days of the laughter-track which results in the whole experience feeling a lot darker & at times horrific. The stories themselves cover three catorgories; hilarious (Geoff Tipps), dramatic (Puline/Mickey/Ross) & sheer horror (Papa Lazarou). The DVD itself is packed full of extras & features the ever-present Local Gossip (commentary) which is as entertaining as the show itself! There's also a few easter-eggs hidden away which I'd recommend you finding because they're well worth it. Perhaps with the exception of the Christmas Special, this is the best thing The League Of Gentlemen have ever produced. The word 'genius' gets used to often & is usually aimed at undeserving targets (Little Britain anyone?) but Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton & Jeremy Dyson are truly deserving of the title - Geniuses. Superb!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Neither one thing nor the other,
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This review is from: The League Of Gentlemen - Series 3 (2002) [DVD] (DVD)
I'm in two minds about this; on the one hand I want to wet myself laughing and on the other hand I want to hate it with a passion. Like everyone else who had seen Series 1 & 2, I was chomping at the bit to see what Series 3 had in store and then I saw it... not quite sure what happened there. You watch it and you can see that it wants to be the League of Gentlemen, but it can't quite get there.Working against it are several factors; you've lost Tubbs and Edward (no, I don't count their brief cameo at the start of episode 1), you've lost the toad loving Denton clan and you've lost Hilary Briss (the mass-murdering butcher). The loss of these core characters becomes even more evident in the nature of the episodes themselves; focusing on one or two sets for the whole episode rather than the usual sketch-show nature doesn't work; especially when you're watching characters that aren't the League's best (I'm thinking here of the B&B characters and the under-developed charity shop owners) Also, they split up the Trinity: Geoff, Mike and Brian have to be kept together. Mike seems to get forgotten and Brian doesn't even feature in the same episode. The three of them work together simply because they don't work together; if you haven't got Geoff battling Brian for Mike's attention, then you lose the essence of the characters. But there are reasons to like this series. Firstly, we still have Pauline and her dim-witted sidekick Mickey (though a return of Cathy Carter Smith would have been welcome). I also love the insanity of Barbara (the botched post-op transsexual) giving birth to the next generation of locals- it don't make sense, but that's why it works. Plus, the League do save one the best for last; lock up your wives, it's the return of Papa Lazarou. Possibly one the League's best creations, this circus running/peg selling/wife stealing villain always brings a smile to my face and never more so then when he finally reveals to Brian just why he needs so many wives. I also like the way in the final episode that they link up all of the individual stories of the series; who'd have thought that one bag could do so much? As I say, the roots are there; you can see the League of Gentlemen humour there, the potential is there and it wants to be funny. But for some reason, it just never get realised and you're left wondering what just happened. If you're a League fan, you have to see it. If you are new to the League, start at the beginning and maybe just miss out this instalment.
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