Julia Davis
- 58 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and director
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Sally4Ever is one of the most joyous watches of the week. As might be expected from Julia Davis, it begins with a rough template for comedy and simply ratchets it up to beyond any tolerance. Hurrah. When sad-sack Sally (Catherine Shepherd, a lovely comedy actor playing it straight) has to witness her besotted boyfriend (Alex Macqueen) not only removing the scurf from his feet but then massaging and blow-drying his toes, it's awkward. After his abject tearful clinging proposal (she accepts, in the face of all available human evidence), he whips his dead mother's wedding dress out of his overorganised wardrobe, apologising for the yellowed stain - "she had an overactive gland", it's awkward. When he celebrates the cloying reluctance of her acceptance with strewn petals and an actionable notelet that would have him arrested in parts of my locale - "My Soulmate. My Partner. My Mother. My Lover. My Nurse, and my Clown"... it's time for Sally to embark on a filthily lesbian affair with Davis. Cue mayhem. It's not a watch for the faint-hearted or faint-brained, but, again, hurrah.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 28th October 2018Sally4Ever episode 1 review
Even the most dedicated Davis fan might not be quite ready for this new Sky Atlantic series.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 26th October 2018Sally4Ever episodes 1 & 2 review
On the basis of just the first two episodes, this might be Davis' most boundary-pushing show yet, so who knows what horrors and delights she has in store for us in the rest of the seven-part series.
Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 26th October 2018Julia Davis's latest series stars Catherine Shepherd (Peep Show) as a suburbanite who ditches her wet-blanket fiance (Alex Macqueen) for Davis's free-spirit artist. One graphic and comically overlong sex scene aside, nothing in this opener reaches Nighty Night's pitch-black peaks, but you suspect it is just getting started.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 25th October 2018TV review: Sally4Ever, Sky Atlantic
All I know is I'll be sticking around for the ride. So Julia Davis must be doing something right.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th October 2018Julia Davis: the anger that went into making Sally4Ever
"This goes to a lot of places and is probably more ambitious than anything I have done before"
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 25th October 2018Sally4Ever review
A singular mix of humiliation, emotional agony and bodily fluids skewers the viewer in exquisite agony.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 25th October 2018Sally4Ever, review
Julia Davis fans will be intrigued but this bleak comedy feels frustratingly familiar.
Alice Vincent, The Telegraph, 25th October 2018Julia Davis and Mark Gatiss interview
The stars of Sky Atlantic's new series discuss pushing comedic boundaries and the joys of playing horrible people.
Alexander Pollard, The Independent, 24th October 2018Sally4Ever is Julia Davis at her nasty, dirty best
Why I adore the comedy star and her sick, sick mind.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 24th October 2018