- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
So much derision flows between Croydon-based flat mates Jez (Robert Webb) and Mark (David Mitchell), it’s easy to forget that underneath it they need one another in a terrible, attraction-of-opposites kind of way.
They’re forever in a sort of losers’ arm-wrestling match, competing to belittle each other into oblivion, then occasionally one will save the other from disaster. It’s almost heart-warming, or as near as this marvellously bitter series gets.
Tonight, the pair are both on new career paths: Mark’s book Business Secrets of the Pharaohs has found a publisher, while Jez is learning to be a life coach (a whole week’s intensive training).
Naturally, Mark is scathing about Jez’s new calling: “I suppose it’s better than some of your job ideas, like becoming an admiral,” he sneers, but by the end he may just have softened.
About this programme
2/6. Mark feels the need to impress Dobby and gets a lucky break when his book Business Secrets of the Pharaohs is accepted by a publisher. Jeremy enrols on a life-coaching course, but things become complicated when he sleeps with his tutor. Comedy, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Mark
- David Mitchell
- Jeremy
- Robert Webb
- Dobby
- Isy Suttie
- Super Hans
- Matt King
- Celia
- Nadia Cameron-Blakey
- Greg
- Tim Downie
- Abby O'Neil
- Patrick Kennedy
- Simon
- Mat Baynton
- Trish
- Charlie Covell
- Waitress
- Rakhee Thakrar
Crew
- Director
- Becky Martin
- Producer
- Phil Clarke
- Writer
- Jesse Armstrong
- Writer
- Sam Bain
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