EPISODE
SEASON
Man Down - Season 1
Greg Davies as Dan has character flaws. Dan has a strange character, as he faces a lot of challenges in his life. Dan still believes in all although he has a tragic life with an unwanted teaching job and dysfunctional friends.
15 December 1979, Dublin, Ireland
1978, Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
April 15, 2019
Man Down is a sitcom with that pleasing but difficult-to-achieve combination -- laugh-out-loud moments and truly touching scenes. A strong start.
April 15, 2019
Some slapstick scenes that are so preposterous as to be surreal... It's touches such as these -- and Davies's utterly silly but joyous classroom scenes -- that could have you warming to both Davies and the series.
April 15, 2019
The supporting cast were caricatures rather than characters, the dialogue didn't convince, the script's swearing seemed gratuitous and jarringly jaunty music played to signal that this was all a bit "madcap" and "wacky."
April 15, 2019
Any show which can come up with a kids' school nativity called Scrooge 3000 is all right in my book.
April 15, 2019
Greg Davies brings his gift for the deranged to a new sitcom that is so loaded with childish eccentricity it practically bludgeons us into laughter.