Monday saw the return of possibly the weirdest TV series in living memory. Imagine a parallel universe in which Are You Being Served? had starred Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Janet Suzman, and you might get some idea of what ITV’s Vicious is like. Alternatively, I suppose, you could just watch the thing and realise that no, you’re not drunk — you really are seeing Derek Jacobi, Ian McKellen and Frances de la Tour acting their socks off in a sitcom that would have been considered rather creaky in 1975.
James Walton
Are you being funny?
For a good sitcom, catch the latest series of BBC2’s Episodes. Plus: does BBC2’s The Game end on an infuriating cliffhanger finale with the cry of ‘second series, please’? Of course it does
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