There She Goes: Unsentimental, Honest, Moving Comedy Drama By Louisa Mellor In Stath, there may be a little of David Brent’s awkward attempts to be a smooth operator, a little of Frank Spencer’s childlike ineptitude, a little of Basil Fawlty’s explosive rage or even Manuel’s utter cluelessness… but he’s his own thing, an inimitable creation.
There’s nothing bland or cookie-cutter about its characters or performances, none of whom we’ve quite encountered before. It’s a workplace comedy with a singular vision and tone. Specificity is what makes Stath Lets Flats a delight. There are many, many more, including new series three guest stars Julia Davis and Charlie Cooper, who each bring their own specific oddness to play. That cast includes creator Jamie Demetriou, who plays inept Greek-Cypriot lettings agent Stath Natasia Demetriou, who plays his dopey would-be singer sister Sophie Katy Wix as career-minded Carole, who’s what would happen if you put all of the female contestants on The Apprentice into a blender and froze the results into a human-shaped ice lolly Kiell Smith-Bynoe as the perpetually exasperated Dean Ellie White as bad girl Eastern European lady postman Katia and Al Roberts as Al, a man so self-effacing that if you ran him over, he’d apologise for denting your car. Series three arrives today, after a delay due to the pandemic and the packed schedules of its increasingly in-demand cast. Which fans have had to, because the brilliant second series which won all the awards Bafta could give it, aired all the way back in summer 2019. It’s the TV equivalent of void-fill foam starch packing peanuts technically edible but with zero nutritional value.Īnd then there’s Stath Lets Flats, a comedy so rich in nutrients you could live off it for well over a year. There’s every appearance of a joke, but nothing inside, just a vacuum where a joke might go. There are rhythmic set-ups and punch lines and pauses for laughter, but what’s being said is… words. As you’ll know if you haven’t set your Netflix account to stop autoplaying previews, a lot of comedy writing isn’t really comedy writing at all, but writing in the shape of comedy.
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