ITVX | ✩✩✩✩✩ Can I let you into a secret (admittedly not a very closely guarded one)? This job really isn’t very difficult. Essentially it amounts to this: watch TV and then write whatever comes into your head. And it has some fantastic side benefits.
This morning, for example, my son wanted me to take him to Brent Cross to buy some trainers. Reader, I couldn’t be assed. But imagine what a rubbish dad I would be if I just said, “I can’t be assed.
I want to watch TV.” But I had the perfect riposte: “Sorry, I have to watch TV. I to.
It’s for work.” But there is, of course, no such thing as the perfect job. Even one where you get paid to watch TV.
Because sometimes – have you noticed? – TV is really quite bad. Normally if something is bad it’s either so bad it’s good, in which case it’s fun to watch – or it’s just bad bad, in which case you can turn it off. Well, not if you have to write this column on it.
Which brings us to , on ITVX. is described as “a semi-autobiographical New Zealand television comedy drama show”. There are elements of that description I can accept.
It’s plainly made in New Zealand, is for television and is a show. And I will take at face value the claim by its writer and lead actor Simone Nathan that it’s semi-autobiographical. But comedy? It’s about as funny as stubbing your toe on a table leg, and there is more drama in the ads in between the episodes’ two parts.
Reader, I lost hours of my life to , a pr.
