It’s a hilarious, scathing British comedy of sorts that keeps growing and changing without losing its brilliantly raw, seemingly vulgar, and indeed cultivated wild spirit. Think classics like ‘The Office’ – which was later adapted and taken to worldwide success – ‘Little Britain’, ‘Psychoville’ and everything Steve Pemberton has mastered starting with ‘Inside No. 9,” and we get a glimpse of what happens in Rent as you can (Filmin), the gross sitcom that began when Jamie Demetriou (the actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his role in Fleabag: It’s the guy with the huge teeth, Bus Rodent) wondered what would happen if he was a clumsy and obnoxious real estate agent trying to rent out flats on behalf of Michael & Eagle, a less creditworthy London estate agency.
Stath’s father – who is called Demetriou in the series because he is both the protagonist and its creator – is the owner of such a disastrous company, but there is one exemplary worker: one Carole Collins (Katy Wix). , a conceited and efficient realtor – eminently efficient: she can rent out apartments over the phone – which of course makes life worse for Stath. Vasos, for that’s the father’s name, a cranky Greek who dates men who look almost as chubby lords of the crowd as he does, is considering putting the agency in the hands of one of his sons – yes, an unassuming succession – But persevere because you fear the worst. Which is confirmed in this newly released third season, and not based on what might be expected, as she hasn’t really settled on either of them.
Demetriou with the mark of the inefficient and quirky agency he works for.
Incidentally, Stath’s sister is none other than Jamie’s sister in real life, namely Natasia Demetriou, the very famous Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows (HBO), here in the role of the deluded, goofy and weird Sophie , a kind of lost soul (and in tracksuit), who sometimes eats whistles and finds everything funny and weird at the same time, and who is madly in love with the also very weird and goofy Alistair (Al Roberts), and Yours is a more than possible couple, preferring to be charming and to be foolishly impossible. Of course, there’s also the competition – the handsome blonde from the agency next door – and her own life trying to make a little cameo in the only thing that matters: the job that gets it all done. devours. And that makes Rent as you can something unique and funny at the same time.
And it is that, without losing an iota of his brutal and brilliant sense of slapstick, real estate slapstick, without complexes to the furthest corners of the precariousness – economic, social, sentimental, existential – of the present proceeds. Because behind every sloping floor and every door that leads to nowhere on the same floor, behind every wrecked apartment – without faucets, almost without walls, with mattresses fit only to stand on – and behind the suffocation of the always exorbitant rent is a generation, for whom the idea of having a place to live was both an odyssey and a joke from the start. A tasteless joke, but with which, like the protagonists of Rent as you can, they got used to life.
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