Anyone else find Twenty Twenty Six disappointing after W1A and Twenty Twelve?

[ProudAmberTurtle]

I liked W1A and Twenty Twelve but Twenty Twenty Six did nothing for me.

It wasn't even just that it wasn't funny - there are lots of comedies I like without actually laughing at all the way through. It was boring.

Am I being unreasonable?

Dh and I have just watched episode 1. It was disappointing..felt like it was trying to copy exactly the Olympic one but failed miserably. Have you watched it all?

Just the first episode. I don't think I can handle anymore.

The Olympic one worked as it was original and had good writing. Not the case here.

I thought it was fine - ep1 always has the issue that characters have to be introduced. I'm looking forward to seeing if Will is any more useful now!

Didn't like it. Lazy writing, forgettable acting. Characters were mostly non-entities whose lines consisted of "totally", "absolutely" and swear words.

Watched episode one and gave up. The characters were unfunny copies of the Olympics ones.

absolutley yes!

came back to edit as in it is dissapointing not that you are unreasonable - it is shocking

Yes it was rubbish. There was no relationship within the team. Jokes weren’t great. and Will was under utilised. And the end was bizarre, he just left before it concluded like scheduling conflicts meant they had to finish an episode short. I also found the suggestion of a relationship between him and the significantly younger woman a bit grim.

I would bring it back to the UK, get rid of Will (there are only so many times "yeah", "cool", "right" can elicit a laugh) and bring back everyone from Twenty Twelve which was the funniest of them all IMO. Still love love love Ian Fletcher 😍

@asdbaybeeee I also found the suggestion of a relationship between him and the significantly grim.
Yes, and you could see it coming from the beginning.

Yes, it was very poor. Agree re grim age gap. It just wasn’t t funny. Will was funny as a naive early 20s intern but as a proper grown up who had shown no character development at all or learnt anything was unlikely and just rather sad. The other characters just seemed to have been randomly allocated a catch phrase on the basis that if they said it enough that would create a character and be funny. It didn’t work.

Same - I loved the others but stopped halfway through this series. There wasn't enough to each episode and all the absolutelys were so frequent it was draining

I enjoyed it - but you’re right, not as good as previous series.

I don't know what's happened to the BBC and comedy writing in the last few years but it's not in a good place.

Did anyone see Friday's episode of Have I Got News For You? Also had to turn that off about midway through - painfully unfunny

It was too depressing to watch. Gave up after the first episode!

i only gave the first episode 5 minutes, i need to make an effort to watch but somehow it isnt grabbing me

I watched the first one. Didn’t work in the US. Not watching anymore

I thought you meant this year so far.....so yes incredibly disappointing.

I gave up on it after one episode. Liked 2012 and loved W1A but repeating the same format in a US/multinational setting didn't work. And I thought they just jumped in to the same gag of giving each character their own aggravating dysfunctional catchphrases without grounding them in anything authentic.

2012 worked because it was taking the piss out of something real that we were all consuming in real time (our very own Olympic preps). And W1A gave the writers the huge gift of an extremely mockable and affectionately regarded institution, with a culture that the writers knew well how to take the piss out of.

2026 is just some office somewhere that they have parachuted the same unlikable character-types into. Plus they seem to be writing on autopilot, especially in the David Tennant narration.

Also, FIFA is full-on corrupt, isn't it? It needs a less gentle kind of comedy.

Agree completely

Very disappointing. I didn’t like the first one but decided to watch the second one as first episodes can be deceiving (Schitts Creek) but if anything it was worse.

It definitely wasn't as good, but by the end it had warmed up a bit and the characters were more settled and I quite liked the sub plot towards the end. It's only 6 episodes though, so not a massive time sink.

I rewatched Twenty-Twelve and W1A prior to Twenty-Twenty-Six. TTS was a rehash of W1A with the exact same lines used with very similar characters. TT and W1A had some originality between the series but TTS did not. It was very unfortunate. 0/5.

From the Guardian: Twenty Twenty Six has a collection of roughly daubed caricatures, each of whom has been assigned a joke that is subsequently wielded in the manner of an oversized foam mallet.

Very good, very strong. 😂