We Might Regret This - new BBC comedy

[Fambo Number Mive]

There's a new BBC comedy beginning on Monday 19th August about a tetraplegic artist called Freya who moves from Canada to London to be with her partner and hires her best friend as her carer. More details from the BBC iplayer webiste:

Canadian artist and tetraplegic Freya, moves to London to be with Abe, a silver fox lawyer. Freya fires her problematic 24-hour live-in Personal Care Assistant Ty and begs best friend Jo to take the role, Freya is delighted when she accepts - Abe much less so.

It begins on Monday 19th August at 10pm on BBC Two (except for viewers in Northern Ireland, I'm not sure what happens for them).The trailer can be seen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0jcz6k4/we-might-regret-this-trailer-we-might-regret-this

Starts Kyla Harris as Freya and Elean Saurel as Jo. I didn't find the trailer that funny but it is only a 1 minute complication. Will give a watch.

[Dimbleby]

The trailer has certainly ensured that Dimbleby will not be tuning in.

[madhair60]

given the quality of bbc "comedy" these days, i dare say that we shall!!!

[shoulders]

Would that it were so, madhair60

[lauraxsynthesis]

Really didn't like this and gave up 1.5 eps in. Why does every character have to be so creepy and suspect. I decided I didn't want to stick around to find out, and also that I didn't trust the programme makers to explain each awful person's motivations. Things kept taking me out of the story like the couple

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meeting in a toilet and immediately starting to make out.

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The main character and her ex best friend supposedly being the same age as the son of the 50 year old "old man". Maybe he's meant to be old because he's a proper grown up with a house, but anyway thinking about all this was distracting. The two Olivias was a bit funny but I felt like I'd seen all the stuff around that scenario before.

Anyway it's not for me because I don't like gross out stuff. Some people will find the

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piss in the face

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funny. It's also not for people who like their comedy dramas reasonably well-lit. Everything was so bloody dark.

I did like Sally Phillips' beautiful Span House.

[Fambo Number Mive]

Watched the first episode and all the characters seem really obnoxious and hateful. Didn't laugh once.

The creepy and ableist PA is the only vaguely interesting character.

Watched a bit of the second episode and stopped after a few minutes. Still not funny and everyone seems to hate each other. I regret the time I spent watching it, it was a deeply unpleasent experience.

Not sure if it gets better later on but I'm not waiting to find out. It was like being at the next table in a pub to a group of really vile people. Got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes somehow.

[Asclepius]

Three episodes in and really enjoying this. Funny and warm. Plus it keeps providing details about how the characters get/got where they are, without treating it as heavy exposition (and it keeps blind-siding you by repeatedly going against your assumptions). Looking forward to the rest of the series.

[WestHill]

Yeah I wasn't convinced after the first ep but ended up sticking with it and really enjoyed it. Some fantastic dialogue and Sally Phillips is great in it.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

I haven't seen this but why do we need likeable characters? Is every scenario in real life peppered with loveable people? Most people are cunts