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For a one-off comedy, and for someone who doesn't really bother with many of Gervais' shows (even though I like him), I thought it was quite good.

Not laugh-a-minute in the slightest, but it had its moments. It was more about the underlying message of questioning different stereotypes, all of which I thought were very discrete but pretty clever in how they were used, i.e. the woman assuming that if when she asked the man what kind of films he liked, she'd be able to determine whether he was gay, and of course at the start when Karl Pilkington's character said he 'wasn't interested in being on TV, showing off his life' - cleverly mocking shows that follow certain celebrities around like Peter Andre.

The pre-show criticism was, as other people have said, totally unjustified. Nothing in the show was offensive, it was all about cleverly mocking stereotypes. The ones I picked up on aside from the ones I mentioned were also about how disabled people are perfectly capable of doing such a job, and could show care and compassion, and there were a few little remarks which I can't remember which seemed to take the piss out of how care home life and elderly people are stereotyped.

As I had guessed...not at all offensive, and a massive overreaction by some before the show had even aired. I still stand by my point earlier in this thread that if you don't understand satire, then this show might've been offensive to you, but if you don't, are are intelligent enough to pick up on what was going on, then it wouldn't have been. I'm expecting Kizzy to come in here eating her words, as I had always thought she would have to afterwards...but we'll see.