I am a massive procrastinator, and over the past couple of days I have discovered and finished the entire series of 'The Inbetweeners.' This is a British sitcom that is filled with crude humour (and sometimes that is the best humour, especially when you are avoiding doing homework) featuring a group of guys in high school who would be considered the "losers." Each episode goes for around 25 minutes, so it is easy to just watch an episode one after the other and not notice that a few hours has gone past and your homework is still left untouched, but by that stage, you are too tired to do it and are ready just to go to bed.
'The Inbetweeners' is narrated by one of the primary characters, Will, who is the straight-laced, mature and to be honest, really weird boy who was forced to go to a normal state school after having gone to a private school. He is a snob and appears to be intelligent, and immediately is classified as a loser at his new school, but luckily makes friends with three other guys who are equally unique and an "inbetweener." There is Simon, who is hopelessly in love with Carli (one of his family friends and fellow class mate) and is probably the most caring and somewhat cynical of the group. Then there's the extremely immature and most crude, Jay. He and Simon are the most believable characters, as their motivations and comments seem to be the most sincere in terms of what some teenagers talk about. Jay in particular is an interesting character as he constantly tells outlandish lies about his love life all because he is insecure and teased constantly by his father. Then there is Neil, the slow and easy going, gullible character, who believes everything Jay says, and is probably too trusting for his own good. So these four guys are completely different, however the chemistry between them is so natural and great fun to watch.
Even though the actors are in their late twenties, they take on the role of teenagers with ease, and as a result, the series is successful and has been made into two movies (which I haven't seen yet, but will soon). The storylines' are about their simple day to day lives, showing their incredible bad luck with girls, with teachers and with other peers at school, but the bad luck they encounter is 100% believable, unlike so many other tv shows. It is so often that a tv show would make something happen and it is so outrageous that you know it wouldn't happen in real life, but in this sitcom, the things that occur to the four friends could really happen to anyone.
'The Inbetweeners' is narrated by one of the primary characters, Will, who is the straight-laced, mature and to be honest, really weird boy who was forced to go to a normal state school after having gone to a private school. He is a snob and appears to be intelligent, and immediately is classified as a loser at his new school, but luckily makes friends with three other guys who are equally unique and an "inbetweener." There is Simon, who is hopelessly in love with Carli (one of his family friends and fellow class mate) and is probably the most caring and somewhat cynical of the group. Then there's the extremely immature and most crude, Jay. He and Simon are the most believable characters, as their motivations and comments seem to be the most sincere in terms of what some teenagers talk about. Jay in particular is an interesting character as he constantly tells outlandish lies about his love life all because he is insecure and teased constantly by his father. Then there is Neil, the slow and easy going, gullible character, who believes everything Jay says, and is probably too trusting for his own good. So these four guys are completely different, however the chemistry between them is so natural and great fun to watch.
Even though the actors are in their late twenties, they take on the role of teenagers with ease, and as a result, the series is successful and has been made into two movies (which I haven't seen yet, but will soon). The storylines' are about their simple day to day lives, showing their incredible bad luck with girls, with teachers and with other peers at school, but the bad luck they encounter is 100% believable, unlike so many other tv shows. It is so often that a tv show would make something happen and it is so outrageous that you know it wouldn't happen in real life, but in this sitcom, the things that occur to the four friends could really happen to anyone.
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