I stumbled across this series after watching "Bad Education" featuring Jack Whitehall looking up the title on Wikipedia revealed this statement;
"At the time of the series launch it broke BBC Three's record for the highest-rated first episode of a comedy, which was previously held by Horne and Corden, but is now held by Cuckoo"
Intrigued I decided to look up and view what Cuckoo had to offer. After watching the firsts episode I must admit that I wasn't majorly impressed. The pilot was "OK" and didn't instantly reel in my attention.
Lets be fair here, even some of the best series' like "Spaced" had a pretty slow and boring first episodes which merely sets the plot. Cuckoo was very much so, true to this statement.
I am so happy I went on to view the second episode because it was hilarious. The third episode however, has to be my favourite, which shows our once beloved Greg Davis who played Mr. Gilbert in the Inbetweeners, completely off his face on MDMA and crashing a party his 16 year old son is attending, where he is trying to impress a girl he has a crush on.
This is a British comedy through and through, dark and gritty, with a slight hint of American thrown in there by Adam Samberg (but only the best bits). Topped of with some fantastic acting and killer laugh out loud scenes (and I genuinely laughed out loud, which is unusual for me). I'm going to have to be honest here, the only problem I found with this series was that the first episode wasn't as gripping as the rest and that there are only 6 half hour episodes in the series. I was left wanting much more because you really connect with all of the characters and the plot is fantastic.
Look, if your not hooked by the third episode then you are waisting your time, but it saddens me to know I have an entire year to wait before the possibility of another series :P Fantastic series and I really hope it does well for itself.
9/10
"At the time of the series launch it broke BBC Three's record for the highest-rated first episode of a comedy, which was previously held by Horne and Corden, but is now held by Cuckoo"
Intrigued I decided to look up and view what Cuckoo had to offer. After watching the firsts episode I must admit that I wasn't majorly impressed. The pilot was "OK" and didn't instantly reel in my attention.
Lets be fair here, even some of the best series' like "Spaced" had a pretty slow and boring first episodes which merely sets the plot. Cuckoo was very much so, true to this statement.
I am so happy I went on to view the second episode because it was hilarious. The third episode however, has to be my favourite, which shows our once beloved Greg Davis who played Mr. Gilbert in the Inbetweeners, completely off his face on MDMA and crashing a party his 16 year old son is attending, where he is trying to impress a girl he has a crush on.
This is a British comedy through and through, dark and gritty, with a slight hint of American thrown in there by Adam Samberg (but only the best bits). Topped of with some fantastic acting and killer laugh out loud scenes (and I genuinely laughed out loud, which is unusual for me). I'm going to have to be honest here, the only problem I found with this series was that the first episode wasn't as gripping as the rest and that there are only 6 half hour episodes in the series. I was left wanting much more because you really connect with all of the characters and the plot is fantastic.
Look, if your not hooked by the third episode then you are waisting your time, but it saddens me to know I have an entire year to wait before the possibility of another series :P Fantastic series and I really hope it does well for itself.
9/10