The Worst Film Ever

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

I found this gem, surprisingly on KERA, Texas's PBS station. Full of amazing characters both regular and bit parts. The one reviewer here had a problem with Gemma's character thinking she needed a man, but the reviewer states he/she only hung around for 4 episodes. The spoiler here is that our Gemma finds herself, unfinds herself, and keeps on going despite all her mother tells her about how to live her life. Gemma gets her job, dealing with social services, and meets quite an odd assortment of characters. I, living in the US, have always had the prejudice that the British have always got things on the money when it comes to acting, and no more does it show than in this little comedy that England has so unjustly chosen to forget. Gemma must not be forgotten, nor Sebastian, nor her goldfish. Hopefully this is not too much off the mark:"Isn't it interesting how people leave you? They come into your life, uninvited most of the time, and then they move everything around as if it was a room full of furniture. And then, just as you're getting used to everything being in a different place, they move it all back again the way it was..and walk away."

Sadly, Felicity's talents are wasted on this mindless and completely sexist piece of fluff. I have to confess however, that I only watched 4 episodes of the 2 seasons I have as I quickly became discouraged at how this, supposedly strong-willed woman permits her ex-boyfriend to freely walk into her home when she is away and finding him naked in her bed, protests mightily.....and he spends the night. So what is she one asks.....just another brainless blond bimbo? Apparently yes. I had hoped from the beginning episodes that she was going to take a stand but she fails to stand up to her lavish claims as a newly single liberated woman. As well, there are a pair of girls living upstairs who seem to serve no other purpose than to fill in some empty air with some lifeless humour. All in all I'm surprised it lasted more than 1 season.

Kendal and the others take the most minimal material and, almost rather like a sanitized Jack Kerouac, produce comments on life, the universe and everything from an initially mundane surrounding (but obviously in a more buoyant sense than Beat Generation writers). Where some would consider SOLO uneventful, I see it as simply understated - too much for the contemporary short attention span, perhaps.

Rather Mary Tyler Moore-ish, this Britcom follows the path of Gemma as she lives her life as a single woman, not too eager to marry longtime boyfriend, even the really dishy guy. The requisite mother who thinks a woman is nothing without a man is played not too tiresomely by Elspet Gray. Catch these if you can for a refreshing slice of 80's life.