11/13/2023 0 Comments Damned tv show streamCharles loves those Patagonian toothfish like he loves his own brothers, and he doesn’t want them eaten, however delicious they are. Don’t you remember, from the Black Spider Letters? It was about the most interesting revelation from them. Why? Because these three clowns – Charlie, Jason and Blowfish – are on a ship off the Falkland Islands trying to catch a Patagonian toothfish. Incidentally, I wonder if her son and heir was watching Fishing Impossible (ITV). She could be lying on the floor somewhere, staring up at the ceiling, hoping to see a blue flash reflected in chandelier or gilding. ![]() Actually, I think it probably was the Queen of England and they might have been a bit quick to dismiss that one. And another call from the Queen of England. And a call about a dead cat – dead and buried, so it’s unclear why the caller thinks it needs an ambulance. Like the lady who calls with a broken nail. Not that everyone who calls 999 does need one, of course, and there are some nice examples of serious pisstakers here. If you’re told you don’t require one, it might just mean there simply isn’t an ambulance available. And then maybe a big spike in demand – surge purple enhanced, it’s called – which means someone has to make tricky decisions about who gets an ambulance and who doesn’t. ![]() Hell, it looks hard though, what they do: a cardiac arrest here, a shooting over there, suicide, stabbing, more stopped hearts, a big fire. They’re heroes and, if some of them seem to know it, well, that’s probably allowed. I don’t think the paramedics and crews in observational doc Ambulance (BBC1) – which follows members of the London ambulance service as they try to keep 8.6 million Londoners alive – go underappreciated. And maybe social work will prove to be a great unfracked reserve of tragi-comedy shale gas. I hope in the coming episodes it will probe deeper, unearth darker secrets, and make Damned the genuinely original thing that Getting On was. Social work is clearly something that Brand cares about and knows about (her mother was a social worker) it suits her style – sort of celebratory and respectful, but in a mucky way. I could have done with more of that – more of the social work, less of the office japes and politics, which has been pretty much covered (yes, I am thinking of a certain office in Slough). Eventually, Rose goes out to visit some children who may need help, and who are in the (poor) care of an ex of hers, as it happens. ![]() Ah, here’s someone, Anne-Marie, but her case was closed a while back, she’s now just here to stalk Al. There are a few voicemails from people wanting help, but not an awful lot of helping children. It – the office, the boss, the bants, the wobbly camera – is not unfamiliar. The camera operator has a chronic case of the shakes and zoomy-in-and-outy syndrome – I’m feeling quite dizzy. Ingrid is about to have a hysterectomy, her mind’s not really on the job. Rose and Al (Brand and Alan Davies) are on aforementioned black humour and banter. Nat the temp who can’t work the phones is back, and still can’t work them. Denise the dictatorial boss is tasked with creating a streamlined cluster team (I think she means making cuts) and employs sneaky former-cop Nitin – known, borderline racistly, as Night In – to spy on his colleagues. Weird Martin has changed the code for the door, so just getting into the office is hard today. Actually, this first episode of Damned (as in, if you do and if you don’t) is more about the place of work than the work that goes on there.
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