I'm not sure if the continuity errors at the beginning of BBC 2's new comedy Family Tree were intentional, but they were hard to miss, even for an idiot like me.
The characters drove through a dry Clapham Junction twice, it got to be like those cartoons, but every time we went to the car it was raining, but outside it was perfectly dry again. OK, if Family Tree had been funny and engaging with sharp characters, snappy dialogue and spot on acting those early errors would have been swept from the memory. sadly it was none of these things so the errors stuck in my head.
Co written and co created by Christopher Guest (This Is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind) you would expect a lot more than what was served up here. Chris O'Dowd an actor with a range so narrow he can barely play Chris O'Dowd, is Ben Chadwick, a single, unemployed, thirty something who is just meandering through life (with Family Tree he's in the right show for meandering) when he inherits a chest of family memorabilia from his great aunt. Ben decides to trace his family tree and that's about it. He has the usual bunch of wacky, mad cap characters surrounding him like an aggravating (emphasis on the aggravating) best mate, a sister who expresses her anger through a ventriloquist dummy of a monkey (I know) and a deluded dad who invents useless objects (Michael McKean giving us his best Spinal Tap).
So I suppose every week Ben will delve deeper into his family history, thankfully I won't be along for the ride.
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