Yes, I thought tonight's episode was really funny too. It seems to be getting better week by week. I even caught my teenage son laughing at it, and he really didn't think much of the first episode.
I think ITV are finally making a comedy comeback! 
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I found this episode slightly slow to get into, although I think I was just failing to pay attention properly. Picked up before too long though, and provided plenty of laughs. Perhaps slightly too mean to Ash though?
Quote: G180e @ May 11 2013, 4:42 PM BSTI always feel as if I'm watching a Live Theatre production when I watch Vicious which isn't necrisally a bad thing.
Does anybody know what the theme tune is called?
Big hit in the 80s by Jimmy Somerville and the boys - Communards. Was that the Rev there too?
Cover of a Gloria Gaynor song from the 70s.
I realised last night (in fact, after seeing a newspaper story about Romola Garai) that Vicious owes something of a debt to the marvellous book "Covering McKellen". David Weston trailed around the world as McKellen's understudy for the RSC Lear/Seagull pairing, never in fact going on, while writing a diary that is a catty compendium of bitchiness. Garai gets her fair share.
It includes a tale in which Weston (had been in Dr Who once) and Sylvester McCoy (had been a Doctor) go to a Doctor Who convention on a day off. There are endless complaints about the ease with which young people get film work. Long-forgotten, by everyone else, scores are settled. It's well worth reading, and I presume that the Vicious writers did.
I felt that tonight's episode was probably the best yet. I found that it was laugh out loud funny. Shame there's no episode next week! This has to be one of the best sitcoms on telly at the moment IMO.
Marvellous stuff. Laughed a lot. Infectiously joyous. More please, ITV. Much more.
I thought I'd take to this more than TWW on BBC when they started together but it's been the other way around, on laughs anyway. I may find the humour in this a bit weak for my taste but it is there, there are lots of cues for laughs that others are taking up if not me. The production has been good apart from the laugh track which I find very distracting.
I like the old fashionedness, the full on acting, the home set is great I think. But the scripts have been so-so at best imo. They brought a slick American writer in even though it's based on a British writer's play who doesn't even get a credit (although he's advising the yank). I can't believe he'd have been less hackneyed than this scriptwriter because I'd put a label of about 1983 on most of those gags and scenarios. Yanks but no Yanks, we can do sitcom writing quite well ourselves, thank you very much. But overall it gets away with it because it knows it's old fashioned. Bound to get another series or two providing the actors can stay alive, to borrow some of V's type of humour.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ May 21 2013, 8:46 AM BSThackneyed than this scriptwriter because I'd put a label of about 1983 on most of those gags and scenarios.
Probably has that 80s feel because it's when Freddie and Stewart would have been at their peak, maybe in their 30s then, that's why the Communards intro totally suits it.
This has been a joy to watch, very funny. Loved the clubbing episode last night, not a foot wrong with these two pros and the supports all have their own identity, will be sad when it's over.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ May 21 2013, 8:46 AM BSTThey brought a slick American writer in even though it's based on a British writer's play who doesn't even get a credit (although he's advising the yank).
Are you referring to Mark Ravenhill? The creator of the show who is, indeed, credited as (co-)creator? And as a consulting producer?
I'm surprised this isn't called 'the Hawaiian' there's so much ham and cheese.
I do wonder if it wouldn't be so lauded if the terrific leads weren't in it.
I'm sure there are other lesser known but still good actors who could have played the roles of Freddie and Stuart however I do doubt whether there would have been such a positive reception for the programme.
So must go down to brilliant casting.
It's fun and a good way to waste part of a Monday evening.
Really enjoyed this ep. Some really great zingers and the chemistry between McKellen and Jacobi is just lovely. Hopefully ITV will build on the success and keep investing in comedy.
Reminds me of Terry and June in a good way.
Quote: Shandonbelle @ May 21 2013, 11:01 AM BSTProbably has that 80s feel because it's when Freddie and Stewart would have been at their peak, maybe in their 30s then, that's why the Communards intro totally suits it.
This has been a joy to watch, very funny. Loved the clubbing episode last night, not a foot wrong with these two pros and the supports all have their own identity, will be sad when it's over.
They're supposed to be around 70 now, so would only have been 40-50 in the 1980s.
I was being generous 
I loved the part at the end this week where McKellen and Jacobi danced for about 20 seconds and then got tired and went home! 