anniemarshallster Review of Lovesick

Lovesick (2014–2018)

This show will save your life - you'll be laughing too hard to hear the grim reaper at the door.

[10/10 · 13 March 2020]

After a full day of coronavirus news my husband and I were undecided whether to drink the coolaid now or deal with our predicted death by pneumonia more pro-actively by watching SCROTAL RECALL. We're not the aimed at demographic (clearly) but we took option B - so glad we did. Have finished season 1 (Riverdance the highlight) in one hit and looking forward to Seasons 2 and 3 tonight. I remember MEN BEHAVING BADLY - maybe this is the update but it's so much funnier. And somewhere in here lurks the spirit of Richard Curtis. It's also seemingly set in Glasgow - big plus - with occasional jaunts out of town. The scripts are amazing - taut, sharp and tightly plotted. The musical details are classics. The jokes (verbal, physical, slow builds, fast builds, prat falls, in your face (everything covered here) are to die for. And the cast is glorious. Dylan (Johnny Flynn) is sweetly honest to the point of dangerous, occasionally demure but mostly confused; Luke (Daniel Ing) is hyper and also confused and our lovely girl in the middle Evie - the one with a brain - (Antonia Thomas) is also extremely confused. And all those women! Everyone one of them perfectly cast. Dylan's list is quite long (although inordinately sprinkled with names beginning with A) so three seasons seems about right.