#I haven't really written anything since sometime in late February though.

[averbaldumpingground]

Welcome back, nice to see a post from you again. Hope you are well 🙂

Thank you, that is very kind of you. I've actually been on here this whole time, mostly lurking. :)

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

Yo! So I've been checking up on my guy Zach Woods to see if he's been brilliant in anything lately so that I could watch and admire him, and noticed he's in a show called Avenue 5. So I looked it up and found out it's a sci-fi comedy show written by Armando Iannucci and Hugh Laurie plays the lead, and thought 'hey, meerkats lady (idk if saying your name is alright) likes these guys'. I watched the trailer and didn't think much honestly but I'll put it here for you to see if you haven't. I bet Zach Woods is doing great work. Also Hugh Laurie with a beard.

https://youtu.be/w8Zr3f-_Ft8

That's great that you discovered that, because you're giving me an opportunity to share this show! I first watched it early last year I think, and since then it's become one of those shows where I'll re-watch bits of episodes somewhat often. At the moment they're working on season 2, which I'm looking forward to.

Avenue 5 is a good show, I definitely recommend it to someone who enjoys the work of the many famous people involved. Hugh Laurie, Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, Jessica St. Clair, Josh Gad, that guy who played David Wallace on The Office. Daisy May Cooper has a recurring role that's really entertaining. It's sort of what Armando Iannucci decided to do once he had the cred in America that he got from Veep, and could make a new thing with a bunch of money and famous people.

It's not as good as some of the other things Armando Iannucci has made, but only because pretty much nothing is as good as those things. I feel like it has a huge amount of potential, though. I can see where they're going with a few different threads and I think if they had time they could make it something really great. Unfortunately they're saying it'll likely end after season 2, so I don't know if that'll happen. But anyway, season 1 is still quite entertaining. There's a lot going on, and the more I watch it, the more I find new appreciation for how hilarious different bits of it are. Himesh Patel, a guy whom I think is well known for EastEnders but I know him for that Beatles movie I hated and for the fact that he was born on the exact same day of the same year as I was, plays a minor character who entertains me more every time I see it.

Sometimes, I think half the reason this show was created is to show off how perfectly Hugh Laurie can switch between English and American accents. And that can sort of work as a metaphor for the whole show, actually. It takes elements of Armando Iannucci's classic sharpness and bleakness, and put them in a show with a much brighter and more American feel. It's a weird contrast at times, but it's cool. And again, I feel like they could do more with that contrast if given more time.

All nine episodes of season 1 are on the big Google Drive that I set up a year and a half ago to store a bunch of my Britcom collection. Here are the Avenue 5 episodes, and in case anyone reading this hasn't seen me share that folder before, he's a link to the entire folder that contains my Britcom videos. I had to pay some money to store so much data in one account, but that one's paid up until February 2023 so feel free to stream/download if anyoneo wants those files.

(Edit: I just looked through that Google Drive for the first time in a while, and realized it’s a bit confusing that all Alan Partridge things, including the Alan Partridge shows that happened without Iannucci’s input, and On The Hour and The Day Today, which aren’t really thought of as Alan Partridge shows and are just shows in which he was a character, are in the Alan Partridge sub-folder of the larger Armando Iannucci folder. There’s probably a better way I could organize that whole collection, maybe I’ll try to figure that out. Anyway, there’s good stuff in there.)