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The InBetweeners – Series two coming soon

Posted on March 25, 2009 | 1 comment |

The InBetweeners

I kind of liked The InBetweeners. Okay, it was on E4, the watching of which, as Stewart Lee pointed out this week, is normally like connecting a giant sewage pipe to your house. But it was surprisingly funny for a show aimed at "young adults" and was a refreshing antidote to Skins' über-coolness, principally thanks to its more realistic premise: four blokes who aren't quite nerds but who aren't popular, trying to be cool but failing.

Anyway, delightfully enough, series two is on the way:

Following the huge success of the first series, the award-winning The Inbetweeners is back with more mishaps, embarrassing attempts to pull and the vital adult initiation - to lose their virginity and become men.

Returning to E4 on 2nd April, the six part series voted the Best New British Television Comedy at the 2008 British Comedy Awards, continues where the first series left off. Centred at Rudge Park comprehensive school, four dysfunctional friends are all desperately trying to work out how to fit in.

Will (Simon Bird), is still trying to be part of the crowd, but now also has a new challenge: to raise the social standing of his new friends to 'cool' - it's not going to work.

At his side is Simon (Joe Thomas) who is still hopelessly besotted with Carli D'Amato (Emily Head) and anything she thinks is cool he immediately goes along with. Jay's (James Buckley) still boasting stories of impressive exploits and sexual conquests that are just a little too fantastical to believe. Making up the quartet is Neil (Blake Harrison), an easy going lad who is not exactly the brains of the outfit and whose dad is definitely not gay.

Over the six episodes, the lads attempt to assert their maturity in a clubbing trip to London. The French exchange student is a bit too much of a threat, and they endure the infamous sociology and geography field trip to Swanage in the hope of finding the legendary Swanage 'MILF'. Work experience week sets up new challenges for Will and Neil and even the underage disco proves socially fatal for them. Facing new tests everyday they also have to deal with the day-to-day traumas of teenage life, families and exams.

Here's a YouTube trailer:

1 Comment

  1. Aaron wrote:
    March 25, 2009 | Reply

    Ah great, The Inbetweeners is one of my guilty pleasures.

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