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Saxondale

psj3809psj3809
edited September 2007 in Chit chat
I really do like Steve Coogan, love Alan Partridge and Pauline Calf etc and many of his other work i've seen.

But try as i might i just cant like Saxondale. I really do 'want' to like it and i've still watched practically every episode hoping for a classic but the constant 'I was roadie for Judas Priest in the 70's....' jokes are wearing thin and overall theres not too much to laugh about.

I keep perservering just in case it turns and gets really good but i'm gutted as in a whole episode there might be one slightly funny bit.

Anyone here like this show at all ?
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  • DEATHDEATH
    edited September 2007
    sorry mate, you're asking the wrong bloke - never could stand him or anything he ever did. I'm, sure he has talent don't get me wrong - it's just that I could never see it. Maybe I'm just too old.....
    Oh bugger!<br>
  • DarenDaren
    edited September 2007
    psj3809 wrote: »
    I really do like Steve Coogan, love Alan Partridge and Pauline Calf etc and many of his other work i've seen.

    But try as i might i just cant like Saxondale. I really do 'want' to like it and i've still watched practically every episode hoping for a classic but the constant 'I was roadie for Judas Priest in the 70's....' jokes are wearing thin and overall theres not too much to laugh about.

    I keep perservering just in case it turns and gets really good but i'm gutted as in a whole episode there might be one slightly funny bit.

    Anyone here like this show at all ?

    I'm with you. Saxondale ain't a classic show, by a long way. I hope they kill it off after this second series. It's not a patch on when he played Alan Partridge in the Day Today, or in his own series.

    Classic Alan Partridge on the Day Today, from 1994:.

    That was liquid football!

  • alchresearchalchresearch
    edited September 2007
    Series 1 had some funny moments in it, but this one isn't going anywhere.
  • NickHNickH
    edited September 2007
    The current fashion for a lack of laughter track on comedies means that you hear yourself laugh better.

    Unfortunately with Saxondale, you watch it in complete silence.

    Coogan's a spent force.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited September 2007
    Whilst Saxondale was not his best work I quite liked the character.

    I suppose it's more funny for me as I know somone just like Saxondale.

    We have a stage engeneer at our university. He has been a stage engeneer for far too long. He did it as a grad Job when graduating from media studies in the early 90's and never left. He is just like Saxon dale.


    I've often heard him say Saxondale like comments:

    Thinks like "I've thrown bigger people than that off stage I can tell you".

    When I was working at "insert famous person here"'s gig, blaahdy blaah by blaahh.....

    An woh-betide anyone come near his mixing desk at university gigs etc; not that he knows how to work it properly.


    Anyway, I never knew they were doing a series two. I bet its worse than the first one.

    Andrew.
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  • DarenDaren
    edited September 2007
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Anyway, I never knew they were doing a series two. I bet its worse than the first one.

    Yeah, it's on Thursday nights, BBC2 9:30. Can't be that many episodes left now.
  • DEATHDEATH
    edited September 2007
    Much prefer Maiden's Paschendale than Saxondale :D

    Deffo worth a download......
    Oh bugger!<br>
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited September 2007
    I hated the office when I first saw it. I like it now.

    Saxondale has grown on me, wasn't sure at first.

    In some ways, it's very Tony Hancock.

    I think Steve Coogan might just be one of the finest comic actors alive in Britain.
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited September 2007
    I like the Saxondale character enormously (he's one of the few Coogan personas that I completely believe in) and I loved series one but series two has been a bit of a disappointment so far. It's still bloody good but it's really lacking the impact of the first series. I do like the naff neighbour, though. Very well-observed.

    I hope he does more with the character, though. It's his best creation since Partridge.
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited September 2007
    Yeah that naff neighbour works very well, really does make me cringe. Sure we've all seen people like that before.

    I just dont laugh as much as i thought i would when i watch Saxondale, every week i 'want to laugh' but just always come away disappointed.
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