Guilbert
Thursday 30th January 2014 2:40pm [Edited]
87 posts
Quote: Dr Sanchez @ 30th January 2014, 7:39 AM GMT
The 3rd episode was my least favourite so far but still very enjoyable.
I agree.
I loved episode 1 and said so earlier on this forum (10 out of 10).
Episode 2 I did not enjoy as much, was only a 7 or 8 out of 10.
Episode 3 I was really disappointed in, only a 4 or 5 out of 10 from me.
Often comedies put a good episode 1 out, then perhaps the weakest show for episode 2, then stronger episodes from 3 onwards, hoping to build an audience for the rest of the series.
So I was hoping Ep 2 was a dip but I found Ep 3 a real struggle.
The humour seemed very "forced". When a script is good actors don't need to "force" it but when the script is poor then they often have to "force" the show to be funny.
(Classic example of this is Fawlty Towers where in the dead body show we can all sympathise with Basil tying to constantly hide the body and the laughs come naturally, but in say the Wedding Anniversary show, where Sybil drives off before all their friends arrive, we don't laugh as much because at the back of our minds we are all thinking why does Basil not just tell his friends Sybil has gone. So the humour is all rather forced).
I am also finding the characters in HOF have no depth, there is no light and shade in them. What we saw them doing in episode 1 they are still doing in episode 3.
Beef comes in, talks about his sexual fantasies, and goes out.
Someone punches another person and the other person does a strange "dance", and then punches someone else, who then does a dance and so on.
I WANT to like it, but I am finding from episode 1 onwards I am liking it less and less.
P.S. I did compare it with The Young Ones in an earlier comment and while there are SOME comparisons (the cartoon type violence, the stupid behaviour etc.) there was much more light and shade in The Young Ones which makes it funnier.
House Of Fools is a bit one dimensional.