The humor on this show is like nothing I've seen before or since, it's almost impossible to describe without inventing new words, but I'm going to try anyway.
Probably the best way to describe it is a massive joke, it not just one level of jokes but multiple levels of jokes simultaneously on every level from the most blatant to the most microscopic. There's Micallef telling jokes about jokes as more jokes go on in the background. As a result you get a show that seems on the surface almost completely random and meaningless, yet somehow extremely well structured.
The attention to detail of the randomness is almost too much to take in. For example, a courtroom scene. It opens with Micallef (the lawyer) standing on his head as he examines some evidence, meanwhile in the background the jury are all wearing cricket pads, it cuts to the corridor where a colleague has been shot and Micallef tastes his blood, then Micallef wrestles the gun of an escaped convict and then uses it to demand the judge strip off all his clothes for no apparent reason.
On paper it sound completely ridiculous and on screen it's no different, but somehow it works and you find yourself laughing the whole way through. That's this shows, very odd, appeal.
Give it a chance it's hilariously weird.
Probably the best way to describe it is a massive joke, it not just one level of jokes but multiple levels of jokes simultaneously on every level from the most blatant to the most microscopic. There's Micallef telling jokes about jokes as more jokes go on in the background. As a result you get a show that seems on the surface almost completely random and meaningless, yet somehow extremely well structured.
The attention to detail of the randomness is almost too much to take in. For example, a courtroom scene. It opens with Micallef (the lawyer) standing on his head as he examines some evidence, meanwhile in the background the jury are all wearing cricket pads, it cuts to the corridor where a colleague has been shot and Micallef tastes his blood, then Micallef wrestles the gun of an escaped convict and then uses it to demand the judge strip off all his clothes for no apparent reason.
On paper it sound completely ridiculous and on screen it's no different, but somehow it works and you find yourself laughing the whole way through. That's this shows, very odd, appeal.
Give it a chance it's hilariously weird.