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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hit and miss, at best,
By Mr. Stuart Bruce "DonQuibeats" (Cardiff, UK) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: We Know Where You Live - The Complete Series [DVD] (DVD)
Describing this show as 'hit and miss' would be a bit generous. It's mostly 'miss' but with a handful of hits that just about make it worth watching.
It's a low-budget Channel 5/Paramount Comedy sketch show that attempted to mimic the success of shows like "The Fast Show"- with characters that recur in different episodes, a few catchphrases, an ensemble cast, and all that. Most of the time, the real let-down is the writing. Sketches are badly thought out, a bit obvious, and you can see most of the punchlines coming from several miles away. The writing is a total letdown to the performing talent, most of whom have proven in other shows that they're good comedy actors. Apologies to Jeremy Fowlds for singling him out but of the cast of six, his performances are the ones that belong in Chuckle Brothers rather than alternative comedy. However there are some brief moments of genius. You can somehow see it in Simon Pegg's and Fiona Allen's eyes, when they know they're doing a sketch that is genuinely funny and they're putting their all into it, and there are a handful of these on the DVD. Most of the time though it's very poor.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
How could such good people be so bad?,
By Flora Cake "Ellesar" (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: We Know Where You Live - The Complete Series [DVD] (DVD)
What really flummoxes me is that Pegg was doing Spaced at this time, so it can't even be written off as a youthful error of his(it was not 1997 as it says here, it was made in 1999 and shown in 2000). Bhaskar had already estabished himself well with Goodness Gracious me. The women have clearly been chosen primarily for their decorative function - though Allen did do OK in Smack The Pony.
This 'best of' is awful. There are no decent characters in it, about 2 laugh out louds in the whole 6 episodes. The writers should be shot at dawn, the actors struggled with some really hackneyed 'jokes'. Now I know why I had never heard of it before it came up on Amazon recommendations. Just pants.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
We Know Where You Live Remix,
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This review is from: We Know Where You Live - The Complete Series [DVD] (DVD)
This dvd is a seven episode highlights compilation of the thirteen part series. I have to say I remember watching the original run on Paramount Comedy Channel and remembered it fondly. That is until I watched this DVD, 11 years later. If this is the highlights, how terrible was the stuff they cut out?
There are some good ideas in some of the writing but the poor filming and some bad actors as well as a canned laughter track take away any humour. It comes away feeling like an episode of Basil Brush. If you are a die-hard Pegg, Bhaskar or Allen fan then pick this up cheap to complete your collection but don't expect to get any laughs or enjoyment out of it, only satisfaction that they went on to better things.
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