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Episode 2

posted 14 years ago by badgerking10
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Again, nothing much happened. But, there was an easier atmosphere between them and, unlike last week, you could imagine that they were friendly enough to want to go off on this sort of trip together... Maybe it was due to being prepared for the style of the thing after watching it last week. But, I enjoyed this more than the first episode... Again, a bit too much of the competitive impressions stuff and is all the kitchen footage really any more than padding..? And, I wanted to hear more of their rendition of "Wuthering Heights" - I thought that was quite delightful..! But, I am warming to it... Mind you - I think I'll definitely avoid l'Enclume..! I'm all for creativity in food. But, tiny portions of pretentious nonsense certainly wouldn't impress me!

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[–] greensville 14 years ago

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I quite like the competitive impressions and the explanations behind them. The Richard Gere stuff was great and the Stephen Hawkins stuff had me laughing out loud.

Didn't really feel like half an hour either.

Great cameo by Ben Stiller too!

[–] mf_boom 14 years ago

Wasn't that the point of the first episode though, with the uneasy atmosphere? They were acquaintances as they mentioned to the receptionist when they were checking in. The introduction alone in the first episode was evident that they weren’t good buddies, when Coogan is saying; I asked a few others but they turned me down that’s why I’m asking you’, basically he was the last resort. The atmosphere was perfectly set.
As the episode went on the atmosphere eased, the moment it eased for me was the impressions because it was getting on Coogan’s nerves, but he then got involved to get one up on Brydon, but this competitiveness actually helped relax the atmosphere as they were enjoying themselves (Coogan actually had a slight smile on his face at one point).

Both episodes have had me laughing out loud, thoroughly enjoying it.

[–] ubercommando 14 years ago

To me, this series is a natural follow on from "A Cock And Bull Story" and it probably helps to have seen that first because it sets the scene of two "friends" who have this competativeness going on between them and that Steve's insecure and increasingly ageing comic on the wrong side of the cusp of movie stardom is constantly undermined by Rob's terrier snapping at his heels. However, Rob's surface calm is undercut by his constant need to slip into other character voices which makes him seem insincere.

In some ways, The Trip seems like a variation on what Peter Cook and Dudley Moore used to do wherein they would start comedy bantering and someone switched the cameras or recording equipment on to capture what happens. I have genuinely laughed out loud at the impressions; especially the Michael Caine, Stephen Hawking and the various James Bond routines so I'm not going to quibble that the show is made up of mainly that.

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[–] Reilly_4 14 years ago

I think this series is getting better and better. I thought last night's (episode three) was absolutely phenominal. There were so many positives to it; seeing Steve Coogan chuckle (as it happened I realised I'd never seen him laugh so sincerely before), the old character they riffed on towards the end ("Are you over fifty...." "Are you over one hundred-and-fifty....") was pure Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as someone mentioned earlier, and for some reason the scene with Steve in the bathroom trying to do Rob's 'man in a box' voice was really rather powerful, because of what he said earlier regarding Rob being consistently mediocre, then trying and failing to do something that he's purported to being rather naff and irritating (to him at least). And the shot of him bellowing "Aha!" across the landscape was just brilliant.

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[–] theNomadz 14 years ago

Agree so much Reilly_4 its fantastic and I love the Cook/Moore example, they're working so well together off each other. Coogans found his Moore :D and any fan of pure comedy should be loving this

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[–] badgerking10 14 years ago

Yes - I'm really warming to this now... It's just a shame the first episode was a tad "inaccessible" - I imagine it put quite a lot of people off.

[–] mf_boom 14 years ago

Yeah the scene in the bathroom was quality.

Everything about this show is awesome for me, its one of those few programs where it has me chuckling a couple of days later.

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[–] Reilly_4 14 years ago

'Dude', not really. I didn't like it just because he quoted Partridge, though even if I did, what's wrong with that? I actually liked it because he was overlooking a beautiful natural scene, and of all the things he could have done in that one moment he chose to yell his most famous character's catchphrase, despite his constant musings on leaving things like that behind and becoming a leading man in Hollywood. He's fully aware of what's made him famous and whilst being appreciative of it, he's desperate to move on, yet that's all he could think to do when presented with such an opportunity.

So yeah.

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