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"Benidorm" is a wonderful,true,touching and hilarious portrait of the British abroad.These folk are not "Europeans",they are Brits,proud,bloody - minded,funny,sharp and generous with everything but money. Noticeably short of jolly cockneys,the programme concentrates on folk from that mythical area north of Watford where few of us southerners dare tread,Lancashire. Determined to have a good time they have plumped for an "all - in" package holiday at a Benidorm hotel that seems stuck in a 1980s parallel universe. All human life is there.With its glorious vulgarity,its desperation, its misunderstandings,deceits,hopeless hopes and large and small tragedies. The writing is spot on,the cast incomparable,the characters as real as your friends from the pub or factory. If I pick the Garvey family for special mention it is because they are closer to being a real family than any other I've seen in even the most prestigious productions. Also outstanding is the brilliant Mr J.Vegas and the sublime Miss A.Cruttenden. Forget any patronising criticism you may have read,"Benidorm" tells you more about Britain and the British in the 21st century than a dozen TV documentaries or the entire ouevre of the fashionable Mr Loach and his companions in condescention and it's gloriously rudely funny to boot.
score 10/10
ianlouisiana 3 February 2012
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