Comedy is totally subjective and I have what I consider as a straightforward approach, if I find something funny I'll laugh at it, if not then I won't.
It's really that simple but what I have discovered with relatively recent comedy shows, is that the definition of what constitutes comedy has drastically changed.
This programme is labelled as a comedy but frankly it is not that at all, it is not remotely funny by any stretch of my imagination.
It is a drama about a young woman Miri Matteson, endeavouring to return to some form of normality in her life.
As viewers we don't know anything about her life other than, what we observe of it as it unfolds before us.
We have clues from the attitudes and reactions of others to her, parents, ex boyfriend, neighbour, and new employer.
These help inform of what she has to cope with every day in simply trying to survive, while we try and discern what her secret really is.
I don't know the actress Daisy Haggard or what else she has done, so I am just going on this particular show.
But I feel for her and can only wish the best for her character, although I have absolutely no idea what she has actually done in her past.
So I have made the connection to her character from her performance as an actress, which I feel is so empathetic. That I want her to succeed and, manage to overcome any obstacles in her path.
Which is why I will continue to watch the entire series to hopefully find answers to her secret, and whether she comes through happily.
On a personal note about TV comedy and the kind of shows , that are served up for our 'Entertainment'.
I am talking about comedy shows that are produced and are screened in the UK, and not American shows.
There appears to be a dearth of writers with a sense of humour, certainly new ones with anything remotely different to offer.
There are great exceptions to this with original ideas, but they do appear to be especially thin on the ground.
What we actually get is writers who may have an Idea for a character and storyline, that could be interesting and engrossing.
But I feel that they make the mistake of trying to hang a label on it, or to squeeze it into a category.
Instead of the writer of this deciding to pigeonhole it as a comedy, and parcel it into half hour time slots. They should simply have considered the story as a whole, a drama in the life Mirri Matteson.
Each episode could have been crafted, to fit and suit the overall storyline.
To my mind TV or rather the attitudes of television companies is far too arbitrary, by creating pigeonholes of 'comedy' and 'drama'.
In the old days certainly of the BBC 'comedy' seemed to have, been labelled as Light Entertainment.
And then they had another category altogether that of Drama, which invariably was more heavy going and 'serious'.
Nowadays there does not appear to be ether comedy, or drama writers of any note.
Instead there are just writers who are frankly neither fish nor fowl, not one thing nor another.
So we get a seemingly plethora of a totally new breed of show/programme, euphemistically called a 'Dramady'.
Honesty I am never entirely sure whether that term is officially acknowledged, by any TV companies.
But to my mind this is the objective reality, of certainly my television viewing experience.
Programmes that are parcelled up and delivered as 'Comedies', but with absolutely no humour whatsoever. And I have to decide whether to ignore the label, and just suck it and see what I make of it.
It's really that simple but what I have discovered with relatively recent comedy shows, is that the definition of what constitutes comedy has drastically changed.
This programme is labelled as a comedy but frankly it is not that at all, it is not remotely funny by any stretch of my imagination.
It is a drama about a young woman Miri Matteson, endeavouring to return to some form of normality in her life.
As viewers we don't know anything about her life other than, what we observe of it as it unfolds before us.
We have clues from the attitudes and reactions of others to her, parents, ex boyfriend, neighbour, and new employer.
These help inform of what she has to cope with every day in simply trying to survive, while we try and discern what her secret really is.
I don't know the actress Daisy Haggard or what else she has done, so I am just going on this particular show.
But I feel for her and can only wish the best for her character, although I have absolutely no idea what she has actually done in her past.
So I have made the connection to her character from her performance as an actress, which I feel is so empathetic. That I want her to succeed and, manage to overcome any obstacles in her path.
Which is why I will continue to watch the entire series to hopefully find answers to her secret, and whether she comes through happily.
On a personal note about TV comedy and the kind of shows , that are served up for our 'Entertainment'.
I am talking about comedy shows that are produced and are screened in the UK, and not American shows.
There appears to be a dearth of writers with a sense of humour, certainly new ones with anything remotely different to offer.
There are great exceptions to this with original ideas, but they do appear to be especially thin on the ground.
What we actually get is writers who may have an Idea for a character and storyline, that could be interesting and engrossing.
But I feel that they make the mistake of trying to hang a label on it, or to squeeze it into a category.
Instead of the writer of this deciding to pigeonhole it as a comedy, and parcel it into half hour time slots. They should simply have considered the story as a whole, a drama in the life Mirri Matteson.
Each episode could have been crafted, to fit and suit the overall storyline.
To my mind TV or rather the attitudes of television companies is far too arbitrary, by creating pigeonholes of 'comedy' and 'drama'.
In the old days certainly of the BBC 'comedy' seemed to have, been labelled as Light Entertainment.
And then they had another category altogether that of Drama, which invariably was more heavy going and 'serious'.
Nowadays there does not appear to be ether comedy, or drama writers of any note.
Instead there are just writers who are frankly neither fish nor fowl, not one thing nor another.
So we get a seemingly plethora of a totally new breed of show/programme, euphemistically called a 'Dramady'.
Honesty I am never entirely sure whether that term is officially acknowledged, by any TV companies.
But to my mind this is the objective reality, of certainly my television viewing experience.
Programmes that are parcelled up and delivered as 'Comedies', but with absolutely no humour whatsoever. And I have to decide whether to ignore the label, and just suck it and see what I make of it.