This show is hilarious!
She was perfect in the part.
..Joe
She plays the part well, but the novelty of the show wore off very quickly for me.
I watched the first two episodes and came to the conclusion that I just didn't it funny....or educational....or entertaining.
It was definitely not meant to be educational!
Me, I found it very funny and entertaining.
FWIW, I'm with you. The writing is great. I've only seen E1, but it seems a lot of the humor is embedded in unexpected or normally inappropriate words/phrases inserted in the the otherwise-normal-sounding documentary speech. Typical British subtlety.
"One thing they did invent was fire, which allowed them to see at night and kept them warm, tragically prolonging their already tedious lives."
"Because they'd also invented this, the fence, a high-tech wooden machine for containing animals."
And of course there British absurdity:
[After being told that 700 was never "the highest number"]: "No, no, I saw a thing on YouTube. After 700, numbers repeat. They just give them different names so you think they're still going up."
It's not supposed to be educational. It's a sendup of pompous PBS/BBC documentary series.
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