Where to find it: BBC iPlayer
Length: 19 half-hour episodes
Synopsis: Cousins don’t grow up in rural England
Recommendation rating: 3/5
What I like about it: can be funny
What I don’t like about it: uncomfortable and unpleasant
Review:
This nice-and-cheap BBC cringe comedy is a family affair, written by and starring siblings Charlie and Daisy Cooper and also featuring their dad in a recurring role, and that definitely helps with improv. Their characters, cousins Kurtan and Kerry, live in a small village in the Cotswolds and reflect a life of limited influences, being around their late 20s but having many of the worse qualities of children. The show generally seems to have a mean and elitist view of the characters it features and only really lets its heart show through the character of the patient fatherly vicar, which only reinforces the patronising infantilising view that pervades the whole thing, especially being framed as a BBC documentary aimed at city-dwellers. It’s just so hard to tell which side they’re on.
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