This Time with Alan Partridge

[Ben Kirkham]

Personally, I loved it. Maybe I’m just so thrilled to have more Partridge but I always love it when Alan is keen to make a good impression. Not as good as Scissored Isle, so far, but lots of potential.

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[Ridley]

Admittedly, there’s little of live show Partridge I get on with – came around on the Milky Bar Kid eventually – but the audience didn’t seem to be getting much out of Stratagem either.

[Dave]

Yeah, there are long sections where the audience is totally silent, especially during the songs.

Overall the whole thing has a real back-of-a-fag-packet feel, loads of weird random sketches that don’t add up to anything coherent and don’t follow any kind of internal logic.

A shame as I think This Time and the Oasthouse podcast have been pretty good quality.

[Unrumble]

Just finished the new Partridge series. Plenty of amusing moments throughout, though it really got going in episode 3 for me. Edmonds continues to catch strays. Lynne deployed perfectly.

Plus a cameo from everyone’s favourite karma pod victim. 

[Warbodog]

The whole jetpack sequence was probably the most instantly iconic bit and has popped into my mind and made me laugh a few times since. It’d take a rewatch to pick more highlights from the ambience. Grasping the nettle, God/bat confusion, ‘Rash Decision’ and Simon generally, A.I. Alan…

A few confrontations with variably unreasonable bar staff, baristas and lawyers felt more like Curb Your Enthusiasm, but done in an Alan way.

[Unrumble]

The whole jetpack sequence was probably the most instantly iconic bit and has popped into my mind and made me laugh a few times since. It’d take a rewatch to pick more highlights from the ambience.

That was the highlight of ep 2, for sure.

I’ll definitely be re-watching at some point. There were so many good bits that I feel deserve my further attention. So much of IAP is seared into my brain, due to having re-watched endlessly as a younger man. Because of all the usual factors, most media is kind of one-and-done now, there’s just too many things I want to watch, and not enough time. But I’ll actively look forward to seeing this again.

[loadoftottnumb]

Watched the first 2 eps last night, really liked them, modern Alan trying to be ‘woke’ is the best thing for the character I think. My favourite part so far is the ‘session’ with Simon. 

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