Threesome ☆☆☆☆½

No this isn't a review of porn, I haven't stooped that low in my lack-of-job boredom. This is a review of a rather brilliant TV show from Comedy Central UK that stars Emun Elliott (The Paradise, Game of Thrones) Stephen Wight (The Paradise, Misfits) and Amy Huberman (an Irish actress I haven't seen before).

They play Richie, Mitch and Alice - three flatmates and best friends/girlfriend and boyfriend who, after a lot of drink and more drugs decide on the eve of Alice's 30th birthday to have a threesome. Hence the title.
Alice gets pregnant by this decision but not by her boyfriend Mitch, but by gay best pal Richie.

I decided I wanted to review this show because I have only just discovered it and am already hooked after two days. Its hilarious. It was also welcome relief after watching The Paradise for eight weeks on the BBC. Don''t get me wrong it was enjoyable enough, but both Wight and Elliott star and they are so much more suited to Threesome than their period selves. For one they get to keep their own accents, always a bonus because often actors seem more sure of themselves if not having to worry too much about diction. For another Elliott gets to be this out and proud Scotsman and Wight a slightly bumbling but hysterically funny man who has landed a girl who seems fairly out of his league for a jobless guy.

Huberman too is a revelation. I have not seen her in anything as I do not live in Ireland or get Irish TV, but she is ridiculously funny. There is an episode in season two where she believes the fridge is evil (as does Mitch) and its like watching your best friends when they are high - they entirely believe everything they are saying and seeing but do so in such an exaggerated way you can't help giggling.

In fact a lot of this show is watching a trio of people behaving like they are on drugs (or in fact are actually on them) and being quite silly. They are children in charge of a small person, but they are also family.
There is a lot of slapstick and physical comedy - a fight involving a vacuum cleaner means some uncomfortable questions about wife beating from the doctor and social services. It is also witty in dialogue and does not use gross out humour.

The show has begun to attract some pretty decent guest stars - we've had Bill Bailey, Robert Webb and Joe Thomas from the Inbetweeners so far in series two.  Hopefully a sign that the show will come back for a third series at the very least.

If you have Virgin Media try and find this show On Demand, Sky may have an equivalent, but if not series one is on DVD and would be well worth a look. I definitely recommend it, its the funniest British show I have seen in a very long time.