With the imminent release of Derek II (Derek's Revenge - The Derekoning) being heralded by a non-stop barrage of tweets and retweets by his fans can I take this opportunity to pull Derek (I Derekius) to pieces?
It isn’t very good is it? Gervais says it’s the ‘favourite thing he’s ever done’ but...it isn’t very good is it?
I’m sorry to go back to that point. But it isn’t very good. There, I’ve done it again, I can’t get away from that.
I have so many issues with this show. It’s not well acted, Karl Pilkington plays Karl Pilkington in a wig, Ricky Gervais plays Ricky Brent with his hair greased forward and David Earl plays David Earl playing the same horrible character he played in Waterloo Junction (or whatever it was called).
And that was a load of sentimental pish as well.
Gervais constantly reiterates that Derek has ‘heart’ and that he’s a good guy in a world of bad guys. Fair enough he may well be but we never get to see anything deeper than a few sideways glances and his jutting jaw. That’s heart? That’s deep?
The plots are total nonsense with leaps of faith you’d question if you saw them in a Disney film where tea pots dance and woodland creatures help around the house. And talk.
OOoooh, the bad guys are trying to close down the home – but don’t worry, some guy who doesn’t work here, a miserable old git that does and a bloke who preys on the elderly have a plan.
A plan that involves telling off a man with a clip board and then running the home themselves.
Gervais also cites that the elderly in his home are having fun, well if that’s the case why are we constantly shown shots of them sat alone, immobile all undercut with maudlin piano to tell you where the sad bits are?
This thread isn’t going well, it didn’t post first time in the Ricky Gervais thread, then it did but only after I’d started a new one and now I’ve come back I’ve noticed half of my diatribe is missing. So I’m trying to pick up from where I left off. Now.
I liked The Office, Extras was ok, the podcasts had some really funny bits, as did An Idiot Abroad – bloody hell I even enjoyed Life’s Too Short but Derek? It just isn’t....
There used to be a comedian over here called Ted Bovis. He was a club comic who toured the infamous Working Men’s Clubs of the North of England. He always used to say something I believe to be true. That the first rule of comedy was that ‘you must have reality.’
While I’m happy to watch ‘off the wall’ stuff and thoroughly enjoy surreal comedy as much as the enxt man things set in the ‘real’ world should have an element of reality to them.
Derek has so many plot holes it doesn’t feel real at all.
And it isn’t very good.
Why I’d go to such great lengths to tell you this is seriously beyond me. Maybe it’s because I’m bored.
Right, hopefully this will post and I can return to work and you can return to whatever it was you were doing.
