Put simply, this is the best series of the best comedy show ever.
The constraints encountered by the writers/producers around cost following season 1 only served to make the show more tightly scripted and funny.
You can be picky and say there are one or two clunky lines of dialogue across the entire four seasons. You can complain that the show came out before HD 1080p. But these are minor things.
There are a few shows/movies that I have seen so many times that I can stick them on and just *listen* to them and get almost the same level of enjoyment. This is one such show. The cast are great, the jokes are great, the plots are great. Very little to dislike here really. Season Four has an over-arching anti-war subtext which seems to give it more depth and poignancy than other seasons (which are also excellent by the way).
This the standard to which I think all other UK comedies, specifically sit-coms, should be judged in my opinion.
The constraints encountered by the writers/producers around cost following season 1 only served to make the show more tightly scripted and funny.
You can be picky and say there are one or two clunky lines of dialogue across the entire four seasons. You can complain that the show came out before HD 1080p. But these are minor things.
There are a few shows/movies that I have seen so many times that I can stick them on and just *listen* to them and get almost the same level of enjoyment. This is one such show. The cast are great, the jokes are great, the plots are great. Very little to dislike here really. Season Four has an over-arching anti-war subtext which seems to give it more depth and poignancy than other seasons (which are also excellent by the way).
This the standard to which I think all other UK comedies, specifically sit-coms, should be judged in my opinion.