Overview
Big Train was a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom Father Ted. Following in the tradition of Monty Python, the comedy of Big Train is based on the subversion of ordinary situations by the surreal or macabre. Its stars included Kevin Eldon, Mark Heap, and Simon Pegg in both series one and two, with Julia Davis, and Amelia Bullmore in the first series, and Rebecca Front, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Catherine Tate in the second series.
| Original Air Dates: | — |
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| Country: | UK |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Network: | BBC Two |
| Watched by: | 677 1 008 527 |
| Total running time: | 4 hours 24 minutes |
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| Episodes: | 12 |
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I met this series by chance, and it was his casting that lured me to watch these 12 episodes. And also because they were created by the same people as Black's Bookstore. Well, in general, I did not lose.
The slogan of the series is "Like in life, only better." In fact, this is a collection of situations that could really happen to anyone, but with some detail that reverses the entire perception of what is happening.
I hasten to note that the first season seemed to be trying to somehow frame what was happening, which reduced the degree of jokes and the concept in general, it was more textual and too deliberate. Although the World peek-a-boo championship even sounds interesting. There were also enough jokes about jockeys that I didn't understand. In the sketch about firefighters, it was the acting that helped out, not the idea itself. Nick Frost flashed by a couple of times and I really liked Mark Hip.
The second season is more visual, so to speak. That's what I liked about him-his clarity and focus. The authors figured out what to do with this "stand-out" element so that it looked right and amused. There was more emphasis on editing, and the aforementioned Edgar Wright seemed to drop by their editing room a couple of times to offer a couple of ideas. There were also changes in the cast, and Catherine Tate, along with Rebecca Front and Tracey-Ann-Oberman, fit right in.
In the second season, there was a stronger feeling that this was not a series, but something like an acting portfolio in which a group of actors gathers, invents the strangest roles for each other and plays them out in a way that Shakespearean theater actors never dreamed of. And it was interesting to watch, yes! The idea of taking talented actors and doing this kind of experiment with them sounds pretty interesting!