Based on comic Liam Williams’s adolescence, this Leeds-set series combines nostalgic laughs and Fleabag-style tenderness for the perfect tale of growing up disgracefully
Not so long ago, it felt as though British TV comedies were struggling to keep up with their moneyed American cousins, as if there were a dearth of originality or an unwillingness to experiment. How different things seem today. There is a wealth of sharp, unique and often breathtakingly inventive British and Irish comedy coming out seemingly by the week. The latest is Ladhood (BBC Three), which has arrived in its box set entirety and may well be gobbled up in one sitting.
Liam Williams is a familiar face in the comedy world. You may recognise him from the excruciating mockumentary Pls Like, which satirised the glossy aspirations of YouTubers, or from Back to Life, another excellent breakout series that felt entirely original. Ladhood is an adaptation of Williams’s Radio 4 series and shares its conceit of the grownup Liam narrating stories from his adolescence in the Garforth suburb of Leeds. The setup is simple. As an adult man in the present day, Liam gets into regular scrapes that have their origins in his teenage years. The audience is then flashed back to the early 00s for a dose of nostalgia that is not so much soul-searching as soul-scraping.
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