Season 1 - Episode 5
Channel 4 (UK)
Fresh Meat has been a refreshingly funny comedy drama about a group of six freshers living in a shared house. The show has set up a dynamic of the group's blossoming fucked up friendships, which have been tested through a series of sleeping with each other, their teachers, and their general anti-social, yet social behaviour.
"Outward Bound" sees the gang jump on a coach to London to take part in the student protests. Naturally things don't go according to plan, and chaos ensues. Vod manages to become a cult figure after hitting her head on a table and saying it was the cops, while also managing to find out about Oregon's affair with their professor. Kingsley gets caught up in a bizarre love triangle. Howard infiltrates a vet school protest. JP gets stuck helping a disabled student, much to his chagrin, and control freak Josie ends up as the leader of the protest. All sorts of chaos manages to happen before they board the coach back to Manchester, with equally touching, awkward and funny results, which could lead to a number of scenarios next week.
Fresh Meat has filled a void where there were no student comedies. While its definitely no Young Ones, I'll hope it has done enough to merit a second season.
*** 1/2
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