Nighty Night - The Complete Series 1
by Tony Dow
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Actor: Angus Deayton, Julia Davis, Kevin Eldon, Michael Fenton Stevens, Rebecca FrontDirector: Tony Dow
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Julia Davis
Writer: Julia Davis
Writer: Mark Gatiss
Writer: Ruth Jones
Producer: Alison MacPhail
Producer: Henry Normal
Writer: Jane Stanness
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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DVD Review: For Advanced Viewers Only
Summary: 5 Stars
There are some TV shows that break new ground, and for the most part, it is the British who blaze the trail. Like Absolutely Fabulous and the League of Gentlemen before it, Night Night doesn't push the envelope of outrageous comedy and good taste, it leapfrogs it, setting new standards of limits. It does so not in the vapid, nicked, and uninspired frolicking in familiar materieal of Little Britain (even bad shows can manage awards), but in a surprisingly subtle and even insidious way. Please search writer and performer Julia Davis' comedy pedegree (including work with the vaunted Steve Coogan, and you shall see why her hitting the comedy bullseye with Night Night is no accident. While some will be uncomfortable with MS, physical disability, and assistive, adaptive technology along with alleged abuses by family members being ripe for satire, one can't help but laugh anyway. Now, you understand this is not for Friends and Seinfeld junior classmen. The hideous comparison of Nighty Night with the non-laughter effect, poorly executed, awkward and stammering performances of inferior actors coping with inferior material (not bothering to write a script, even a thoughtless one, makes for a really cheap show that HBO can't help but air by merits of economy, not comedy) to Curb Your Entusiam declared on the DVD package is the height of cynicism by equally cheap-skate Warner Home Video (they won't pay fees to use Ab Fab's real, signature opening music of the old 70's song "This Wheel's on Fire" that sets the mood so perfectly, nor will they pay fees for other music used prominently in many other BBC TV series--therefore, it is edited out in U.S. DVD releases)affirms the notion that the the market clods at Warner have never watched Nighty Night or, worse, are attempting to lure those raised on mediocrity in television into something for which they surely aren't ready. Nighty Night and Curb Your Enthusiam have not a thing in common. Nighty Night is beyond the cutting edge; be prepared to be shocked; then be shoced that you laugh.
While series 1 delights in its subtle methods--one of the most hilarious scenes involves sexuality, but rather than resort to the quick and crass knock-down exercises seen on Little Britain, Julia Davis allows for silence to play-out as each character is allowed the classic comedic reaction to the scene--series 2 seems to go for the more obvious, and slightly less thougtful gags. However, the first episode of series 2 is among the enitire series' best, but the final episode of series 2 is the weakest, and Julia's attempt to tie up the loose ends makes for a strangley unsatisfying ending to such superior episodes preceeding it.
We must forgive Ms. Davis, for she is only human, and overall, so much of Nighty Night is so strong and clever, refreshingly shocking, as is most of the best comedy created in our culture. This is not the flaccid Arrested Develpment. Nighty Night is the real thing. Truely fresh, grond-breaking comedy that will hvae you howling, provided you are old enough to graduate from Scrubs to watch what grown-ups who have seen it all, view.
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NIGHTY NIGHT:COMPLETE SERIES 1 - DVD MovieSome turn to scary movies for squirms, others to comedy. For the latter, the BBC's Nighty Night packs more squirms into a single episode than an entire season of The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm. Combined. In other words, this blacker-than-black Britcom is so dark it could almost qualify as horror. Simply put, Jill Tyrell (writer/creator Julia Davis, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself) is the hairdresser from hell. She may lack the horns and the forked tail, but her approach to life couldn?t be more demonic. The vicious fun begins when preternaturally passive hubbie Terry (Kevin Eldon) is diagnosed with cancer--a malignant brain tumor, no less. After he's hustled off to the hospital for treatment, Jill tells everyone in town, including compassionate vicar Gordon Forks (Michael Fenton Stevens), that Terry has died and drops by the local dating agency to find a suitable replacement. Meanwhile, the ever-optimistic Cath Cole (Rebecca Front), who has MS, moves in next door. Upon meeting Cath's selfish spouse, Don (Angus Deayton, One Foot in the Grave), Jill decides he's the one. Her seduction plan begins by using Cath to get to him. When Don, who favors more pneumatic types--like the vicar's wife, Sue (Felicity Montagu)--proves resistant to her charms, Jill sets her sights on their teenaged son. Produced by Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People), Nighty Night premiered in the US on the Oxygen Channel. Although there are only six episodes in the first series, the terrifying Mrs. Tyrell wreaks an admirable amount of havoc in each, culminating in one of the most hilariously squirm-inducing season finales in the Beeb's storied history. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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