04-04-2025 23:00 via theguardian.com

Austin review – a tedious sitcom that thinks ‘colossal clodhumping fink’ is something British people say

This UK-Aussie comedy’s depiction of Britishness is painfully twee and trite despite starring Sally Phillips and Ben Miller. Good job that its lead, Michael Theo, is such a joyWe briefly meet Austin, the namesake of this British-Australian sitcom, at the very beginning of the opening episode: he’s walking through his workplace – a warehouse, he’s a forklift driver – bluntly dispensing unsolicited advice to his colleagues (“Best hangover cure: sardines on toast
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