Nathan Barley
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2005
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Comedy series which mercilessly parodies the lifestyles of young London media types. Stars Nicholas Burns, Julian Barratt, Claire Keelan, Richard Ayoade, Spencer Brown and more.
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Box set club: Nathan Barley
Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris's excellent sitcom isn't quite the museum piece you'd imagine - it's well futile.
Johnny Dee, The Guardian, 20th September 2011But Nathan Barley is unfocused, both structurally and in its satire. Personally, I suspect that as Chris Morris -- along with his co-writer Charlie Brooker, who originally created the Nathan Barley character on his peerless website TVGoHome -- did their reputed three years of research on Hoxton, they found that Hoxtonites' main obsessions (new technology, unlistenable music, the boundaries of acceptability, silly slang) were, in fact, pretty close to many of their own.
Caitlin Moran, The Times, 14th March 2005Nathan Barley is not spectacular television, but neither is it appalling. It simply fails to do what it clearly set out to do. It has ended up in entirely the wrong bracket, resulting in a dull thud when it should - an indeed quite easily could - have sounded a loud fanfare.
TJ Worthington, Off The Telly, 12th February 2005