The Inbetweeners
- TV sitcom
- E4
- 2008 - 2010
- 18 episodes (3 series)
An award-winning comedy about four teenagers growing up in suburbia. Stars Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Emily Head and more.
- Series 1, Episode 1 repeated Tuesday at 1:45am on E4
Streaming rank this week: 238
Press clippings Page 26
The first episode of new E4 comedy The Inbetweeners is rubbish. The second one is brilliant. This review is going to be confusing.
It's actually very funny. You just have to wait until episode two to find out. Once Will befriends a rag-tag bunch of mates - from cheeky Jay, who's 97 per cent haircut, to horny Simon, who thinks alcoholism is a turn-on - it's chuckles-a-go-go.
Aspiration has become the norm for teen TV. The O.C. made you want to smack yourself in the face because you didn't spend your A-levels having angst-ridden chats with girls so beautiful you'd eBay a relative for them to just breathe on you. Even the apparently 'real' Skins makes me feel cheated that my teens weren't a conveyer-belt of 17-year-old waifs begging to service me.
Sound like your 16th year? No. The Inbetweeners nails the disappointment, frustration and friendship perfectly. They don't have the talky emotion-spew of Skins - they take the piss out of each other. It's not pretty - but it's real.
The London Paper, 30th April 2008