The
first season of Getting On does the
early-Thick-of-It thing, meaning
we’ve already reached the season 1 finale.
I noticed this a bit yesterday, but this show really has a lot of
continuity for a sitcom. A number of
plotlines from the first two episodes come home to roost here.
There’s
a stray comment that’s been misinterpreted to the point that someone could lose
their job. There’s the threat of an
infection working through the ward. A
minor bit of business from episode 2 roils into a major conflict between Den
and Pippa, born from the pettiest of reasons.
And those are just the big-ticket items.
I think
I’m warming up to it. It’s extremely
unflinching, but there’s a very human element to it that feels genuine, albeit
in a bleak way. Season 2 has twice as
many episodes, and I’m ready to dig into it a bit further.
PC
remains once again off-camera. I noticed
a bit more mockumentary-style shaky-cam this time around – maybe he needed a few
episodes to settle into the format. The
best directing moment probably comes at the end: a triumphantly-filmed montage of an
aggravatingly mundane task, all set to soaring music.
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