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The Age
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
Adults rocks: This share-house comedy is one for the age(s)
Adults ★★★★ At its most basic, Adults is a share-house comedy. But like the best of this admittedly niche genre, it uses that basic premise to say something much more sweeping about the time in which it emerges. The Odd Couple had something to say about the divorce epidemic of the 1960s, and the sometimes comical efforts of grown men suddenly having to find their way in the world without women to prop them up. The Young Ones captured the post-punk anger and early '80s austerity that was the flipside of class mobility in Thatcher's Britain. Friends had much to say about being young, single and aspirational in 1990s New York. And Girls was about the near-impossibility of making a go of life in Manhattan without the aid of a trust fund (though, really, it was about sex, drugs, career, gender, mental health, self-esteem … there was a lot of meat on them thar sitcom bones). Loading Which brings us to Adults, which has distinct echoes of the above – Girls and Friends, especially – but with a huge dollop of identity politics and cancel culture tossed into the mix. It doesn't skewer its twenty-something characters, but it does poke fun at their foibles and performative posturing even as it empathises with them. It throws down a marker in its first moments, as Issa (Amita Rao) responds to the affront of a creepy middle-aged guy masturbating on the subway by doing it right back at him. Her friends are appalled, but outwardly supportive. 'She's doing this for your daughters,' one of them yells to shocked onlookers. 'I think.' Later in the same episode, Samir (Malik Elassal) begins to fret he might be one of those men who doesn't even realise he's crossed a line in terms of unwanted sexual behaviour. So he starts checking in with exes, revelling in their reassurance he did nothing wrong, and then recoiling in horror as they remember that, actually, they were really too drunk that one time to consent, so on second thoughts maybe he is a predator after all… Again, though, the friends are there for comfort.
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Adults rocks: This share-house comedy is one for the age(s)
Adults ★★★★ At its most basic, Adults is a share-house comedy. But like the best of this admittedly niche genre, it uses that basic premise to say something much more sweeping about the time in which it emerges. The Odd Couple had something to say about the divorce epidemic of the 1960s, and the sometimes comical efforts of grown men suddenly having to find their way in the world without women to prop them up. The Young Ones captured the post-punk anger and early '80s austerity that was the flipside of class mobility in Thatcher's Britain. Friends had much to say about being young, single and aspirational in 1990s New York. And Girls was about the near-impossibility of making a go of life in Manhattan without the aid of a trust fund (though, really, it was about sex, drugs, career, gender, mental health, self-esteem … there was a lot of meat on them thar sitcom bones). Loading Which brings us to Adults, which has distinct echoes of the above – Girls and Friends, especially – but with a huge dollop of identity politics and cancel culture tossed into the mix. It doesn't skewer its twenty-something characters, but it does poke fun at their foibles and performative posturing even as it empathises with them. It throws down a marker in its first moments, as Issa (Amita Rao) responds to the affront of a creepy middle-aged guy masturbating on the subway by doing it right back at him. Her friends are appalled, but outwardly supportive. 'She's doing this for your daughters,' one of them yells to shocked onlookers. 'I think.' Later in the same episode, Samir (Malik Elassal) begins to fret he might be one of those men who doesn't even realise he's crossed a line in terms of unwanted sexual behaviour. So he starts checking in with exes, revelling in their reassurance he did nothing wrong, and then recoiling in horror as they remember that, actually, they were really too drunk that one time to consent, so on second thoughts maybe he is a predator after all… Again, though, the friends are there for comfort.
The Guardian
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
TV tonight: fangtastic fun with the return of a hit vampire comedy
10pm, BBC TwoMatt Berry, Natasia Demetriou and Kayvan Novak are back with a fifth series of their bitingly funny vampire mockumentary. Human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) is acting oddly, and the vampires think it's because they missed his birthday (a 'terrible day' for humans). But the reality is that Guillermo has done something his masters won't be very happy about at all. Hollie Richardson 7pm, BBC TwoThe Young Ones veterans Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle motor through Northumberland in a vintage car to see who has the best eye for an heirloom. Valuation experts Natasha Raskin Sharp and James Braxton are on hand to steer them towards the bargains. Graeme Virtue 9pm, BBC OneAs the season finale of the hit Motherland spin-off arrives, is Amanda (Lucy Punch) about to change her insufferably snobbish ways? Not quite. But she needs to decide between a life with awful Johannes in his massive Wapping penthouse, or staying put with Anne and the rest of the SoHa gang. HR 9pm, ITV1 It's 1955 and Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton) stands accused of the murder of her racing driver boyfriend David Blakely (Laurie Davidson). There are also issues of class and gender at play during her Old Bailey trial, while her solicitor John Bickford (Toby Jones) believes Ruth is keeping secrets about an abusive relationship. Ellen E Jones 9.30pm, BBC OneTo include one solo karaoke rendition of I Know Him So Well by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson in your twisted village-based murder-comedy-drama is bold; but in its finale, the show does that for the second time this season, which is some kind of unhinged genius. Plus, a secret is revealed. Jack Seale 10pm, Channel 4Scotland Yard detective Luke Holborn (Joe Dempsie) may be able to handle an extra-spicy jerk chicken, but does that really make him 'one of the good guys'? Detective Millie Black (Tamara Lawrance) isn't so sure, but the two team up anyway to search for missing schoolgirl Janet, in the latest instalment of the ticking-clock Jamaican crime drama. EEJ Moana 2 (David Derrick Jr, 2024), Disney+This is the second instalment of what we must now call a 'franchise' (a live-action version of the 2016 original is out next year), so savour the rarity value while you can. It's colourful, musical business as usual, with Auliʻi Cravalho's ebullient Polynesian navigator Moana setting off into the blue to seek a drowned island – cursed by bad-tempered storm deity Nalo – whose revival will reconnect all the scattered ocean peoples. Dwayne Johnson as demigod Maui vies for the comic foil position with Moana's pet pig and hapless rooster, and it's good to see the coconut pirates back in fighty form. Gods and monsters abound, with Nalo clearly being positioned as the Thanos of the series. Simon Wardell Champions League football: Aston Villa v Club Brugge, 7pm, TNT Sports 1. Arsenal v PSV Eindhoven is on TNT Sports 2 at 7pm.
