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GameFace review
Roisin Conaty's thirtysomething heroine is directionless, enthusiastic and, above all, funny.
Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 23rd November 2017GameFace is the funniest sitcom of the year - review
So how about that bold claim that GameFace is 2017's best new homegrown sitcom? Well, its only serious rivals have been Mitchell and Webb's Back, parenting satire Motherland and rural mockumentary This Country. GameFace arguably out-laughed and out-charmed them all. It even ended on a sweetly optimistic note. Let's hope the second series doesn't take another three years.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 9th November 2017Ross has a satisfying lineup this week, with a mix of Hollywood, music and home-grown talent. In the Oscar-winning corner is Jodie Foster, who could be interesting for some post-Weinstein comments. David Walliams works his charm and Roisin Conaty, the rising star of Man Down and GameFace, brings the laughs. Purveyor of fine tunes and stories Debbie Harry drops in for a chat and provides the music with Blondie.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 4th November 2017Preview - Man Down
Sacked from his latest job, living in an old people's home, humiliating himself in front of his girlfriend's father - things didn't go well for Dan last week.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 1st November 2017It is hard to believe that Greg Davies's buffoon of a character Dan is about to become a father, but at least it means there will be a whole new raft of slapstick ways he can mess things up. In his desperation to provide for his family, Dan reluctantly ponders a move back to teaching as he tries to convince Jeany Spark's Emma that he has the perfect family setup. And Jo (Roisin Conaty, who is never understated but always hilarious) turns her hand to freeganism.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 1st November 2017Man Down, Channel 4, review: "Surrealist fun"
Comedian Greg Davies may have got a much later career start than Jack Whitehall but like him, seems to be making the most of his moment in the sun playing over-the-top idiots, although his are rather lower down the social scale.
Bernadette McNulty, i Newspaper, 25th October 2017TV review: Man Down, C4
Greg Davies returns for a fourth series of Man Down and I sense a bit of a theme emerging. He has previously had a run-in with a turkey and in the first episode of the new run of this tragic, anarchic sitcom he has an oversized chicken thrown at him. But that is just a small indignity compared to some of his other issues in this opening instalment.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th October 2017GameFace review
Ultimately, your enjoyment of GameFace will hinge on whether you empathise with Marcella's irresponsible, self-involved persona.
Natalie Golding, Telly Binge, 16th October 2017GameFace, which had its pilot in 2014, has been commissioned as a series, which is good news for writer and star Roisin Conaty and for us. Oh, it's not something we've not seen before. Shambolic thirtysomething singleton drinks too much, eats too much cake, reads self-help books - it's more scatological than Miranda, less whimperingly funny than Fleabag, but firmly in that part of the spectrum. Yet Conaty still has the ability to pull something truly leftfield from nowhere, such as the nice, if overdone, gag about the guy who had, somehow, never seen Friends. Immensely likable, surprisingly moreish.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 15th October 2017GameFace, a tragicomic portrait of a life unravelled
The English standup has created a big-hearted comedy that manages to make depression and loneliness funny.
Fiona Sturges, The Guardian, 14th October 2017