The End Of The F***ing World
- TV comedy drama
- Channel 4 / Channel 4 (Online)
- 2017 - 2019
- 16 episodes (2 series)
Comedy drama about teen outsiders James and Alyssa, on a road trip to find her father. Stars Jessica Barden, Alex Lawther, Naomi Ackie, Christine Bottomley, Steve Oram and more.
Streaming rank this week: 681
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The End of the F***ing World: review
I know that TV is subjective - one man's University Challenge is another man's TOWIE - but I just didn't like this programme, and here's why. Swearing should be like salt - a little can add flavour to a scene, too much makes it unpalatable - and this is overladen with profanities. The flashes of knives and blood are a little wearisome. However, Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden, who play James and Alyssa, bring a certain pathos and charm to their roles.
Nicola Murphy, Telly Binge, 29th October 2017The End of the F***ing World review
It's so dark that you can barely make out the humour at all - and yet this adaptation of Charles Forsman's comic is totally convincing.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 25th October 2017Review: The End Of The F**king World
I've only watched the first episode of The End of the F**king World. Maybe there are more laughs later on. But at the moment this eight-part series, based on a comic by Charles Forsman, is a dark comedy with the emphasis very much on the dark.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th October 2017Preview - The End of the F***ing World
Channel 4 is showing the first episodes of this new comedy drama on TV before making the rest of the series online only.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 24th October 2017Based on the comic by Chuck Forsman, this show, stripped across the week, finds Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden as misfit teens James and Alyssa. Alyssa is looking for someone with an edge amid stultifying suburbia and she finds it in James. Sadly, he's a budding psychopath who is looking for someone to murder. Which creates a queasy dynamic for a black comedy - there really had better be a good reason for it down the line.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 24th October 2017Review: The End of the F***ing World, an effing triumph
Goodbye Christopher Robins's Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden (The Lobster) star as teen outcasts on the run
Ben Allen, Radio Times, 24th October 2017The End of the F***ing World review
A stylish American road drama with British accents.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 24th October 2017End Of The F***ing World review: dark, funny & fearless
Channel 4's new 8-part comic book adaptation is an all-round winner. Great writing, top performances, well-paced and stylish...
Loulsa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 24th October 2017E4 & Netflix order The End Of The F***ing World
Filming has begun on a "darkly comic road trip tale" for E4 and Netflix. Based on a graphic novel, The End Of The F***ing World follows a psychopathic teenager and his female friend as they search for the father she has never met.
British Comedy Guide, 24th April 2017