The Trip -- new Coogan/Brydon vehicle

[zoooo]

of Julian Barratt! From The Mighty Boosh.

 

[kabbes]

It's brilliant.

I will note that the kabbess also heartily disapproved of the attempted kiss, for reasons of Character Verisimilitude. But I agree with the "competition" angle being mooted here.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I didn't get to watch it properly last night as I was round my parents' and had to put up with my dad moaning about what tosh it is (he used far more colourful language). I'd thought the attempted kiss was just part of a schtick and wasn't genuinely intended, but yeah, if it was then that's a bit of a shame (though the competition angle would make a certain amount of sense).

Will try and catch it again on iPlayer.

 

[D'wards]

Another vote for the attempted kiss being literally out of character, he's far better as the happily married content one.

 

[hektik]

I thought the attempted kiss was out of character too, but I think that the series required it, to be honest: otherwise it becomes a bit too black and white with the roles of each of them: coogan's messed up, brydon's chilled out and happy with life. This way there are shades of grey which add to Brydon's character, so he is more than the foil for Coogan (which was alluded to at the meal).

I also liked the contrast between when they were alone in the car, where they were jousting with one another, but in a good-natured way, just trying to make each other laugh; and the actual meal, where the jousting becomes a game of one-upmanship, because there are girls there.

 

[Balbi]

Yeah, the one-upmanship was painful but a bit funny

Coogan and the coke was a bit sad though, been there recently.

 

[London_Calling]

I'm not sure every man - or even Everyman - would consider 'happily married' and 'quick shag' as mutually exclusive. The Brydon character obviously felt a need to react against his secondary status at lunch, hence the table chat domination with so many impressions. It's really just a plot point/twist though, imo.

Quite like Coogan's moral/legal trajectory; one night stand > grass > coke . . . .

Still amused, if partly because it's a little different.

 

[Stigmata]

I also liked the contrast between when they were alone in the car, where they were jousting with one another, but in a good-natured way, just trying to make each other laugh; and the actual meal, where the jousting becomes a game of one-upmanship, because there are girls there.

An alarmingly recognisable contrast!

Also what's with all the scallops? Are they 'in' at the moment?

 

[goldenecitrone]

An alarmingly recognisable contrast!

A predictably obvious contrast you mean.

 

[Gingerman]

I love that girl who played Coogan's PA, got a lovely little smile

She was hawt

 

[goldenecitrone]

Brilliant stuff. Woody Dawson. Can't imagine Les in Annie Hall though.

 

[Santino]

I liked it.

 

[belboid]

some very good moments, altho not even Rob Brydon can be as sad as he came across in bed at the end, can he?

 

[paolo]

some very good moments, altho not even Rob Brydon can be as sad as he came across in bed at the end, can he?

Why was he sad?

 

[belboid]

you didn't think he looked sad?

 

[paolo]

you didn't think he looked sad?

No. Did you think I thought he looked sad?

 

[Tankus]

painful to watch

 

[goldenecitrone]

you didn't think he looked sad?

Not as sad as Coogan, crying as he did the little Mancunian trapped in a box voice in front of the mirror.

 

[joustmaster]

I am really starting to find the impressions to grating.

 

[ska invita]

I am really starting to find the impressions to grating.

i think that was the idea in this episode. it was all a bit pathetic - but that was the idea. a dark episode this one , i think

 

[joustmaster]

i think that was the idea in this episode. it was all a bit pathetic - but that was the idea. a dark episode this one , i think

Yeah see what you mean. But there is a differnce between seeing that its annoying, and actually being annoyed.

 

[kabbes]

It's brilliant. Melancholy, dark and brilliant.

Maybe the problem is that some are trying to judge it as a sit-com? It's not really a sit-com. More of a dark comedy drama.

 

[Spion]

I got bored and my mind wandered during the dining scenes this time.

 

[kabbes]

A thought: something actually annoying you -- on purpose, to evoke a particular effect -- is a perfectly valid artistic approach.

The Trip is making us feel what Coogan is feeling. And it is making us feel what Brydon is feeling. It's pulling it off spectacularly.

 

[goldenecitrone]

It's brilliant. Melancholy, dark and brilliant.

Maybe the problem is that some are trying to judge it as a sit-com? It's not really a sit-com. More of a dark comedy drama.

Apparently, Michael Winterbottom shot it in the same way he'd shoot a film.

 

[kabbes]

Another thought: it's the same thing Stuart Lee does in his stand-up show. And, in a different way, it's what good music does too. Disonance and asonance. Conflict and resolution. Cacophony and polyphony. The approach in high art, at least, is as old as the hills.

 

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Apparently, Michael Winterbottom shot it in the same way he'd shoot a film.

It shows, it looks very filmic

 

[belboid]

Apparently, Michael Winterbottom shot it in the same way he'd shoot a film.

It would work much much better as a film, imo.

 

[joustmaster]

A thought: something actually annoying you -- on purpose, to evoke a particular effect -- is a perfectly valid artistic approach.

The Trip is making us feel what Coogan is feeling. And it is making us feel what Brydon is feeling. It's pulling it off spectacularly.

Yeah I get that. And have appreciated it through out. It's just this last episode felt a bit, erm, too much.

On an unrelated point-
I grew up in the yorkshire dales, and know the specific locations really well, to the point I even recognise some of the fields! I talked to my mother last night and she said she had watched whole series, but wasn't too keen on those two men wittering on.

 

[Orang Utan]

It would work much much better as a film, imo.

it's already been shown as one at festivals and will in america iirc
i am liking this a lot more now it's got a bit more uncomfortable