We started watching the BBC Comedy series Gavin and Stacey tonight, getting through the first two episodes of Series 1 via Amazon Prime. My younger daughter was watching some of the later episodes while she was home over the Christmas break and my wife had seen one of these and thought it looked like a programme we would both enjoy. Hence us watching it tonight. And on the basis of the two episodes we have seen so far it certainly is. All of the characters have their own uniquely funny attributes and seem very well observed and it is a programme that doesn’t try too hard to be funny all the time, instead mixing various flavors of humour with wry observation and even pathos.
When I messaged my daughter to tell her we had started watching the series she asked me to let her know if I start to have a favourite character, a comment which made me ponder 1) who her favourite character is and 2) whether there was a character that she thought I would find particularly amusing. I have to say that although he has only played a small role in each of the first two episodes I have a sneaking suspicion that Rob Brydon’s character ‘Uncle Bryn’ will turn out to be the one. I also have a feeling that we’ll be watching more episodes over the weekend and probably hitting Series 2 before we know it…
Tim O'Hare 