Crashing

TV review: Crashing

A review of Crashing on Channel 4.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge's monologue Fleabag, told by a free-wheeling, porn-obsessed woman, marked her out as one to watch when it debuted in 2013. Crashing is her first TV script: a flatshare sitcom with a fresh lick of grimy despair. Set in an old hospital, it follows a gaggle of property guardians as they navigate lives made more testing by their dilapidated discount digs - and, perhaps, the fact that many of them are the sort of flamboyantly affected sociopaths comedy commissioners can't seem to get enough of these days.

Crashing is a funny, smart sitcom

If Friends is all about the enviable, dream flat-share, Crashing is about precisely the opposite. In fact, after just one episode of Channel 4's new series, your tiny rented hovel may suddenly seem much more appealing.

TV Preview: Crashing

I guess the nearest comparison is not Peep Show or Friends, but Fresh Meat with a slice of Skins tossed into the mix for good measure.

Crashing, episode 1, Channel 4, review: 'clumsy'

This new comedy about twentysomethings living in a disused hospital was like a hipster take on Miranda, says Michael Hogan.

Channel 4 sitcom Crashing left viewers despairing

New Channel 4 show Crashing arrived on our screens tonight - and was met with near-unanimous distaste from viewers on Twitter.

Generation rent finds its comic voice

Frustrated by the scarcity of meaty roles for women, Phoebe Waller-Bridge - 'the British Amy Schumer' - wrote and stars in Crashing, a new TV comedy for the way we live now.