Having just turned 50, I totally sympathize with how exasperating and unrecognizable the world becomes. I also admit that the tidbits from this show I saw on the internet looked clever and entertaining. But now that I've watched it on DVD (there... I'm a dinosaur), my impression is nowhere near as flattering as the impression I had of other BBC sitcoms from the 1990s, like AbFab and Keeping Up Appearances. To start with, the main character often comes across as effeminate rather than irate. The wife initially provided a pleasant counterbalance - but only for one season, before someone decided to chop off her hair and make her irritable as well. Mixing comedy with fist-in-your-face "social issues" may have been edgy 30 years ago; today it's a yawn. And animals that are routinely locked in a freezer, burned alive or buried alive - well, I doubt that that was ever funny. All in all, a letdown.
Review of One Foot in the Grave
