I thought the second series of Trollied got off to a wobbly (pun intended) start. Characters, most notably Andy, were acting oddly and I wondered if Stephanie Beecham's spot on Hilary Devayimpression would work. Well I needn't have worried the early cobwebs were soon blown firmly away and the second series was first rate. With more episodes, this time around, story lines could expand and characters were given room to breathe. Stephanie Beecham really did inhabit her role of Lorraine, spouting expletives with a real venom. And when she bullied Julie into barking like a dog, at the checkout, it was genuinely unnerving television.
Also Trollied is a mass of stuttering romances. Julie's longing for Gavin rolled on and the Kieran / Katie will they won't they moved ahead nicely; we also had the counterpoint of Colin and Lisa, in what must have been one of the most unromantic romances seen in many a year.
But Trollied wasn't all laughs surely when Lorraine sacked Leighton ( the excellent Joel Fry ) that was more moving than a truck load of BBC and ITV weepy dramas. Also was there a Game of Thrones joke in there as Andy played by Mark Addy was Robert Baratheon was going off to work for Stark's.
In this second series the acting has been impeccable and the writing spot on, when you wander around a supermarket these days you look out for Trollied moments, that's how authentic Valco has seemed. In fact Trollied is one of the few Brit coms that could probably stand up too the test of the American twenty odd show seasons. Something you certainly couldn't say about In With the Flynn's.
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