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A Disappointing Continuation
Ketrivie
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
danelucas
As a 55 year old who has watched comedy over the decades, from the bad to the 'Classics', I certainly hope that Plebs will fall into the Classic category.Refreshingly entertaining, great characters, each funny in their own right, moments of side splitting hilarity. It took me a few episodes to warm to , but once in, hilarious. Best comedy on the TV at the moment, and a show you can go back to and still enjoy.Always the sign of a good comedy I think.Other reviewers have gone into more detail than myself, carn't be arsed ! Salve Grumio ? Aaaaright landlord !!
eapplebaum
There are some scenes I laughed so hard I cried, like the breast milk dousing scene. Seriously, I love these guys and the clever comedic exaggerated view of what life might have looked like for single roman guys of the day. It's a hilarious and imaginative idea of life in Roman times. Each episode is fun and always guarantee's a good laugh. Groomio, Marcus and Stylex are silly goof balls you can't help but love. All the details including the names of characters based on their job, such as "water boy" and "landlord" always evokes a good chuckle. I can't imagine why people want to continue to watch reality TV such as the kardashians, or the jersey shore when they can watch this show.
Julian Evans
Salve everyone. This quality of sitcom doesn't come along very often. Tom Basden and Sam Leifer have created a classic. I hope and pray that series 2 is as good as the first. I have watched the six episodes over and over and introduced it to every house guest that has passed through our front door.Why is it so good? It follows the traditional structure of a great many British sitcoms from the past; repeated situations that vary only slightly from week to week but are always funny; classic characters that you instantly feel you know personally. It creates realistic situations that make ancient Rome relevant and funny. And it only uses bad language to punctuate and add humour rather than to pep-up an otherwise lacklustre script.Marcus, Stylax and Grumio are the Three Stooges of ancient Rome... though one is obviously from somewhere near Manchester. They're at times stupid, manipulative, gross, lazy, utterly seethru, charming, laddish and totally plebeian. But they're all lovable and completely real. Each is a completely necessary foil for the others and all are superbly played by a wonderful and very talented cast. No plot spoilers, just go and buy it! Every performance in it is wonderful, from the slick landlord to the Essex-girl-next-door with her sharp-as-a-tack slave. From the man-eater boss to the corporate memo writer. Then of course there is the fabulous Waterboy (sorry, Waterman) played by one of the show's writers, Tom Basden (have a look at his own YouTube videos).A word about the show's music too... Baba Brooks? Toots and the Maytals? In ancient Rome? I don't know why but it's just perfect!You've probably guessed by now that I LOVE IT.SECOND SERIES - sad updateWhat a disappointment! We've gone from the most promising TV comedy in years to lowest common denominator garbage in one fell swoop. So far I have seen the first two episodes of series two. In the first we're given the spectacle of Marcus performing oral sex on a prostitute and in the second the lads vistit a site to experience oral sex from old men through a hole in wooden fence. Hilarious... not. When you have to stoop to this for laughs you've run out of ideas. If we want porn there are a billion websites waiting to take our money. It's not necessary to include it in a TV show to get cheap laughs. I am no prude. The language is fine, the inuendo is fine. There just isn't the need for this extra gyno comedy. The Marcus from series one just hasn't got it in him to perform cunnilingus with an older woman on his first date... let alone on a kitchen table. Marcus would not carry Grumio on his shoulders during a chariot race. It would be the other way round. The character of Davus is completely unnecessary. I can go on and on... The show has had more money chucked at it, CGI, fancy camera angles and a drugged up, sexed up script. It's as bad as series 3 of the Mighty Boosh. Dudes... Fawlty Towers and Father Ted didn't stray into these murky waters. They're classics. They're clever. This is junk. Shame on you. What a waste.
Laraalison
Plebs is an easy going, obvious, rude comedy.Set in Ancient Rome, many have likened it to the Inbetweeners and it's easy to see why. If you like Inbetweeners, it's no bad thing, obviously. Plebs is a total giggle-fest if you like this type of humour.Ryan Sampson plays Grumio, the slave. Quite simply he is the scene and show stealer - great lines, dead-pan face, an innocent arrogance but clearly quite sneakily clever. Baldrick like, yes, but somehow different.Doon Mackichan is a star, perfectly cast as the perverted, prissy but oh!, so dirty, narcissistic Boss - she rocks this part.Truthfully, the two other main characters could be played by anybody, they just seem to read their lines. Posh, gangly, excessive face pulling... pretty much journeymen.You'll encounter dead hands to masturbate with, herpes riddled cats, porn jugs, sex cages, orgies, swearing, saucy fruit...Yes, it is childish - immature - infantile - puerile! But that is what it is supposed to be. And it is darned funny to boot.
