Sunday 12 July 2009

THAT MITCHELL & WEBB LOOK 3.5

Sunday 12 July 2009

The penultimate episode of Mitchell and Webb's third series is something of an oddity, because there's not really a lot to love or hate. Most of the sketches fell somewhere in the middle and even the successes weren't as sharp as usual, but it still passed the half-hour well enough.

Great: Subtext messages (amusing idea that mobile phone texts now follow-up messages with the true subtext behind them); a world where all students get A's in their exams; Get Me Hennimore (confusion with the letters 'n' and 'm' this week, in a cleverly written piece.)

Good: Two nutricionists scamming patients with New Age twaddle; a King who has a baron he keeps favouring, to his other subject's frustration; Bussman & Christmas buddy cops, where the latter is a detective permanently stuck in the festive spirit; "My Shags As A Whore" (fun critique of shows like Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, where prostitution is presented as something fun); two guru's on a plinth (a bit daft, but it made me smile); and the anti-CSO copper returns from episode 1.

Bad: Two world-famous cellists intending to turn their terraced house into an interntional airport because they're tired of carrying their cellists around; "can I borrow your pen?"; and an overlong sci-fi sketch where everyone uses the word "Vektron".