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Does Susan love him? Will Angela stop hassling him? Is Morrissey God? Why do people laugh at his own poetry? And how are all these questions connected?
In this highly original, seven part sitcom, the completely ordinary and thoroughly perplexed Sean Hughes is plucked from obscurity and kept for seven weeks in a TV studio - which just so happens to be a brick-by-brick reconstruction of his Muswell Hill flat. Trapped, he is forced to share his misgivings and everyday with the studio audience - who along with the script writers such as Samuel Beckett - try to keep him happy by re-arranging his love life and wheeling in his local pub, the corner shop and a park bench.
Sean's Show features guest appearances from Windsor Davies, The Bay City Rollers and The Late Show's Tracy McLeod.
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After the naffest theme tune in TV history you get a sitcom that is every bit as naff - but in a fantastically self-aware way. In the first episode Sean shows how his flat is overlooked by a studio audience, and that his local shop and pub are both studio sets only a few paces away from his flat.
The series mocks itself and the sitcom genre. In one episode there's a running joke about the script containing typos (Sean's mate walks into the room with a lamp, only to be told that the script was wrong and it should have been a limp). And throughout all seven episodes there are running gags which not hilarious to start with, become part of an in-joke that cements you into the series.
It's difficult to pin-point exactly why this is so good. It isn't always that funny, but it is perfectly represents `90s media - at a time when everything was desperate to be cutting edge, arty, and make an impression - this show does it by blowing it all apart and looking like the opposite. Although the show constantly acknowledges that it is a TV show, the character of Sean always seems real, in one episode the script writers analyse how men can empathise with him but are ultimately glad they aren't him.
In a nutshell: A blast of `90s nostalgia which hasn't dated badly. This isn't a laugh a minute, but it is definitely enjoyable. It's not often that we get to see a TV series dissect the emotional side of a thirty-something man, but here we get it all - and in a quirky but intimate set. There are no special features on this disk, not even a commentary
I think we all have our own show running in our heads, a place where we can try and get a perspective by talking to ourselves and our own `studio audience', and with this DVD we can become part of Sean's audience.
The series mocks itself and the sitcom genre. In one episode there's a running joke about the script containing typos (Sean's mate walks into the room with a lamp, only to be told that the script was wrong and it should have been a limp). And throughout all seven episodes there are running gags which not hilarious to start with, become part of an in-joke that cements you into the series.
It's difficult to pin-point exactly why this is so good. It isn't always that funny, but it is perfectly represents `90s media - at a time when everything was desperate to be cutting edge, arty, and make an impression - this show does it by blowing it all apart and looking like the opposite. Although the show constantly acknowledges that it is a TV show, the character of Sean always seems real, in one episode the script writers analyse how men can empathise with him but are ultimately glad they aren't him.
In a nutshell: A blast of `90s nostalgia which hasn't dated badly. This isn't a laugh a minute, but it is definitely enjoyable. It's not often that we get to see a TV series dissect the emotional side of a thirty-something man, but here we get it all - and in a quirky but intimate set. There are no special features on this disk, not even a commentary
I think we all have our own show running in our heads, a place where we can try and get a perspective by talking to ourselves and our own `studio audience', and with this DVD we can become part of Sean's audience.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Maria Savva
This is definitely worth watching again if you were a fan of the show the first time round. I couldn't remember much about the show itself, except that I used to love it, but I was glad I watched it again because I still found it very funny. I think the first episode is the best one on the DVD but there are some great laughs in all of the episodes.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By BS on parade
I'm surprised that was as good as it was. I remember it from its original broadcast and I loved it, but it seemed so unlikely that it would be any good today. It's even interesting to see the Channel X production company logo on the end of each episode. It seemed that they made every other programme back in the early nineties.
It's relentlessly post modern. Almost every joke, every second, is about sitcoms. Endless jokes about the sets, how bad the writing is, how stock characters interact etc. It also has a slew of running gags like the sock that's still wet, Samuel Beckett leaving answer phones messages. Good funny stuff.
I really enjoyed it all apart from the last episode which felt a bit too much like a wheeze for the writers, who've essentially made an episode of Sean on his own on one set talking to the audience. After a while it just gets boring. Otherwise the rest of it was great.
It's relentlessly post modern. Almost every joke, every second, is about sitcoms. Endless jokes about the sets, how bad the writing is, how stock characters interact etc. It also has a slew of running gags like the sock that's still wet, Samuel Beckett leaving answer phones messages. Good funny stuff.
I really enjoyed it all apart from the last episode which felt a bit too much like a wheeze for the writers, who've essentially made an episode of Sean on his own on one set talking to the audience. After a while it just gets boring. Otherwise the rest of it was great.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
pure dross
It's a curious thing British comedy shows: every now and then you get works of pure genius (The Office or Gavin and Stacey come to mind) - inimitable and unique in their subtle and... Read more
Published 19 months ago by P. Pastuszko
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sean's Show Series 1
Great stuff, some very clever ideas and love the wink to the cameras and talking to the audience...but why didn't they put both series in one box? Where is Series 2?!
Published 20 months ago by jazzhead
4.0 out of 5 stars
That sock's still not dry....
Sean's Show - Series 1
Leave me alone Angela!!! I love SUSAN!!!
Leave me alone Angela!!! I love SUSAN!!!
Published on 3 Feb 2009 by LazyRunner
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Usual
Same here - surely it couldn't be anywhere near as good as I remember it being, being about 15 at the time!
But no, worth a rent alright...
But no, worth a rent alright...
Published on 27 Jan 2008 by DJ Bez
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