Following up to the origional "I'm Alan" was a tall order.
As an avid fan of the radio/TV/live shows (basically anything Coogan has done as Alan P) I was worried that this follow up would be hard pressed to match the genius of the Travel Tavern episodes.
And it is true, it is not quite as good, but then the first series was sublime, not only because of the classic quotes I still share with
fellow fans today, but because of the direness of Alan's Situation and how he handles it.
His lot is better in 'I'm Still Alan' albeit still pretty desperate, and the series is basically very good, not a great, but very good. Plenty of 'cringe' moments and memorable lines 'back of the net!' being the most repeated that have since been added to the mix of over a decade of Partridgeisms.
Partridge was easily the funniest character to emerge in the 90s however I would be worried any further series could see declining returns.
As an avid fan of the radio/TV/live shows (basically anything Coogan has done as Alan P) I was worried that this follow up would be hard pressed to match the genius of the Travel Tavern episodes.
And it is true, it is not quite as good, but then the first series was sublime, not only because of the classic quotes I still share with
fellow fans today, but because of the direness of Alan's Situation and how he handles it.
His lot is better in 'I'm Still Alan' albeit still pretty desperate, and the series is basically very good, not a great, but very good. Plenty of 'cringe' moments and memorable lines 'back of the net!' being the most repeated that have since been added to the mix of over a decade of Partridgeisms.
Partridge was easily the funniest character to emerge in the 90s however I would be worried any further series could see declining returns.