Click and collect

[kalowski]

I enjoyed it very much. Gentle show that was obviously full of hints of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I fell about at the bottle of fizzy Coke, and the "Tupac was shot on the Sunset Strip 20 years ago and they still haven't caught his killer," line.

[BritishHobo]

Aye. I wished it could have been longer, as it often had to rush to hit certain story beats, but ultimately it was a nice, sweet little thing, perfect for Christmas Eve.

[St_Eddie]

This was rather sweet and lovely.  A gentle bit of Christmas TV for all the family.  I did think that it was rather predictable at several junctures and more than a bit mawkish.  Overall though, endearing and a nice slice of Christmas viewing.

[Cuellar]

Yeah, mawkish and formulaic but still fun enough. Sort of thing you expect at Xmas innit.

Laughed at Merchant's delivery of the line about not wanting to kiss the pound as it had been in a tramp's pocket.

[easytarget]

re-watching this right now.
it's fucking lovely.

[Mobius]

More heart and sincerity than anything Gervais has ever done

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I remember watching this last year with my elderly parents. We all laughed and felt a proper sense of "Aww, that was a lovely Christmas thing" afterwards. That's all it ever set out to be, so job done.

It's Christmas Day, so let's not be negative... but yeah, there's just no sodding way on Earth that Gervais could even begin to conjure up something as genuinely nice as this. Stephen Merchant was the heart of that duo.*

* I know he didn't write Click and Collect, but everything Merchant has done sans Gervais has been warmer - and kinder - than anything Gervais has done on his own.

[olliebean]

FWIW, I've not watched it yet but Fighting With My Family, the film he directed about wrestling, is on Netflix now.

[SteK]

What happen to that drama about Stephen Port that Merchant starred in? Seems to have disappeared. Merchant looked well creepy in the set photos..

[Schnapple]

What happen to that drama about Stephen Port that Merchant starred in? Seems to have disappeared. Merchant looked well creepy in the set photos..

It's on some time in the New Year.