Sunday, 10 May 2009

Box-Eyed: Is Reggie Perrin rising or falling?

Sunday, 10 May 2009

In this week's Box-Eyed column at Newslite.tv, I take a second look at the remake of Reggie Perrin, starring Martin Clunes as the troubled office manager having a mid-life crisis. I didn't care much for episode 1, but has it risen or fallen in quality since?

"The one bright spark about the show (beyond [Martin] Clunes) is his relationship with co-worker Jasmine, played by the attractive Lucy Liemann. She's the only normal character in the show that's free of sitcom tic's and quirks, and it's easy to feel drawn to that normality, just as Reggie is." Continue reading...