A dark comedy-drama about the life of a geriatric NHS ward, Getting On is like the flip-side of The Golden Girls! Written by and starring Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, it’s a short 3 part series that provides many laughs, as well as holding up a mirror to the state of the British health system, with its concentration on targets, health and safety and funding above humane treatment of patients.
Jo Brand, who I don’t think has acted before, is a natural in the role, but then she has the advantage of once being a nurse. It probably helps that this is a part-script, part-ad-libbed, handheld camera comedy, so it’s not so stagey as a typical sitcom, hewing more to the more modern style of situation comedy, with added drama and ponderousness. The three brief episodes are each very funny, but as with Sherlock, why so few Auntie BBC?! Luckily a second series is in the works.
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