↑ Julia McKenzie on being the new Miss Marple: interview by Patay, Ajesh on The Telegraph ( August 25, 2009): "With a holiday booked for February and still no news, McKenzie jetted off to New Zealand with her American actor-director husband of 37 years Jerry Harte." (archived from the original on July 9, 2018).Black on STAR TREK: PICARD (Season 2) i…Īnna Pope on STAR TREK: PICARD (Season 2) i…Ī J. THE VVITCH (2015) remains a skilled exercise in sparse, Puritanical chills (BluRay Review)Ī J.Article: THE COMPANION – ‘The Politics of The X-Files #5: The Field Where I Died’.Article: THE COMPANION – ‘Millennium, The Curse of Frank Black & the Ghosts of Samhain’.BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER pulls us into a powerful, grief-filled clash of civilisations (Film Review).A BANQUET feasts too thinly on atmospheric, psychological chills (BluRay Review).Continue reading “The Cult of ‘Laddism’: MEN BEHAVING BADLY (Series 3 & 4)” → Tagged Absolutely Fabulous, Adrian Edmondson, After Henry, Anton Rodgers, Babes in the Wood, BBC, Benidorm, Beryl Vertue, Bottom, Caroline Quentin, Comic Strip, Davina McCall, Diana Weston, Donald Sinden, Duty Free, Fever Pitch, FHM, French Fields, Fresh Fields, Gwen Taylor, Harry Enfield, Ian Lindsay, Irvine Welsh, ITV, Jennifer Saunders, Joan Sanderson, Joanna Lumley, Joe McGann, Julia McKenzie, Keith Barron, Leslie Ash, Loaded, Martin Clunes, Martin Dennis, Maxim, Men Behaving Badly, Mr Bean, Neil Morrissey, Never the Twain, Nick Hornby, Prunella Scales, Richard Pearson, Rik Mayall, Rowan Atkinson, Sam's Game, Samantha Janus, Simon Nye, The Upper Hand, They Think It's All Over, Trainspotting, Valerie Minifie, Windsor Davies Leave a comment Search for: Recent Posts What happens as a result? Men Behaving Badly becomes steadily funnier, more acute in its social and moral commentary, and arguably in Series 4 reaches its creative apex. Tony grows more desperate, Gary more lascivious, and both become more boorish and prone to embrace the physically grotesque. Men Behaving Badly, on moving from a pre-watershed ITV slot to post-watershed airing space on the BBC, steadily across both of these series embraces the promise of its title. Though arguably Nye doesn’t fully figure out how Tony works until well into Series 3, his dynamic with Clunes was far more natural, as was it with the shows female co-stars Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash.Ĭome the third and particularly the fourth series, their natural dynamic steadily becomes edgier, naughtier, more raucous and more specifically about the growing aspects of ‘laddism’ that were being popularised in mid-90’s culture dirty lads magazines, drunk nights in the pub, looser attitudes toward fidelity and a determination to prove the masculine sense of virility in sexual conquests with women. His pairing with Harry Enfield as Dermot Povey in Series 1 never quite worked, with Dermot’s passivity in the face of ‘lad culture’ immediately exposed an underwhelming in Series 2 by the arrival of his replacement, Neil Morrissey’s Tony Smart. Martin Clunes stood out immediately as Gary Strang, a hapless, middle-class thirty-something determined to prove his own sexual vitality and fight against a perfectly ordinary relationship with an ordinary woman. The first two series of Simon Nye’s show had the concept but it lacked in terms of execution. If the third series of Men Behaving Badly sets the show on the road to British comedy success, the fourth series is arguably the year that cements the cult following that grew up around it – the mid-1990’s cult of ‘laddism’. Celebrated 1990’s British sitcom Men Behaving Badly recently returned to UK Netflix, which feels like a good opportunity to explore a show which helped define its decade, series by series.
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