Fresh Meat
- TV comedy drama
- Channel 4
- 2011 - 2016
- 30 episodes (4 series)
Comedy drama following six mis-matched students who are starting university in Manchester and sharing the same house together. Stars Jack Whitehall, Joe Thomas, Charlotte Ritchie, Kimberley Nixon, Zawe Ashton and more.
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The beauty of British comedy is how fleeting it is. The US version of The Office dragged on into nine interminable seasons. The British original? Fourteen episodes and done.
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As usual, these six episodes were wince-inducingly familiar for anyone who's every sat through a terrible job interview, thrown a half-arsed party or embarked on an ill-advised relationship, touched with moments of real pathos as the gang said one final farewell to their student home.
Huw Fullerton, Radio Times, 25th December 2016Saying goodbye to our favourite students from Manchester Medlock University was always going to be hard but we felt that writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong did an admirable job in wrapping up the stories of Fresh Meat's six primary characters. What Bain and Armstrong did particularly well in our opinion was to capture that feeling of doubt about what's next to come after uni but did in a way that was both funny and touching. The characters all had their own separate stories whether it be Kingsley's affair with an older woman, Vod's struggle with crippling debt or Oregon's reign of terror at the student union. But it was when the characters all came together that Fresh Meat shone the most which was best exemplified when the housemates were all trapped in their cellar as their abode was ransacked. Overall we felt that Fresh Meat was given a fitting conclusion and gave all six characters a great send-off.
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