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  • Summary: Will (Simon Bird) is the new kid who transfers in from private to public school and finds it difficult to adjust as he eventually joins a group of outcasts.
  • Genre(s): Comedy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Reviewed by: Jessica Shaw
    91
    He's got a briefcase, a superhot mom, and three new buddies in social purgatory. Definite cult-show potential.
  2. Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    80
    Little is off limits in terms of subject matter either; in two of the first three episodes people with disabilities are the focus of pivotal jokes. But it's a mark of the show's intelligence that in both cases it is Will who ends up humiliated.
  3. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    60
    The show has already received considerable acclaim in the U.K. (including the 2008 British Comedy Award), a level of praise that seems a bit generous; still, in the long continuum of teen comedies, "Inbetweeners" does qualitatively register toward the high end of the scale.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. I can't find a bad thing to say about The Inbetweeners. It is probably, if not, THE best British comedy series of recent times and I can't imagine a better series coming along any time soon. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. Easily the funniest UK programme I have ever seen, better than the greats of Blackadder, Fawlty towers and even Only fools in my eyes, love this and deserves a metascore of 100 easily. Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. 10
    One of the best British television show in years, if not ever. It's broken down the barrier that really crude comedy cannot be on television. Maybe thats exactly what teenagers and even some of their parents want more of. It is surely one of the most quotable television shows of all time ('Bus Wankers,'Coque Au Vain') and contrasts with channel 4's other TV show Skins in that it portrays a real teenage lifestyle rather than a Utopian/Dystopian one. Vulgarity has never been so smart and toilet humour never so wanted by the British public. Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes

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