Peter Kay's Car Share
Peter Kay's Car Share
| 29 April 2015 (USA)
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    texxas-1

    All of these positive reviews must be fake! They must be! I gave this one go and I couldn't believe I wasted thirty minutes of my life. They're in the car the whole time talking about rubbish that no one even cares about. The scene never progresses to anything else, it's just two idiots in a car. Peter Kay is not funny,interesting,likable or handsome. Only an idiot with a low IQ would like this show, which I guess lots of the British public are. I can't believe there is more than one series, why is it being allowed to carry on?

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    Jackson Booth-Millard

    Peter Kay has written and directed many successful British situation comedy series, from Phoenix Night to Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere, I was hoping for something good with this new series he brought us, and he did not disappoint. Basically a major supermarket has suggested a car share scheme for the workers to save on staff parking spaces at the store. This scheme brings together John (Peter Kay), a level headed Assistant Manager, and Kayleigh (Sian Foulkes), a ditsy Promotions Rep, day by day he picks up from her house and they drive the out-of-town journey to the store they work. Each journey they fill the awkward silences with talk of their lives, current events and media, and sometimes embarrassing incidents occur on the way, and also they are accompanied along the way by the catchy and enjoyable tunes, daft competitions and repetitive adverts of Forever FM on the car radio. The action most of each half hour episode takes place in the car, only stopping to get in at the start of the journey, stop arriving at the supermarket, re-entering to go home, and stopping for drop-off, they only occasionally get out to stop along the way, but also episodes see John or Kayleigh hearing a particular song play on the radio, and they will imagine themselves in a music video scenario miming along to the song. It is obvious as well, that despite sometimes having daft disagreements and sometimes misunderstandings, John and Kayleigh become good friends in the car journeys, and both being single, John not looking and Kayleigh keeping options open, it is possible that they may have held-in feelings as well, especially by the last episode. Also starring Danny Swarsbrick as Ted 2 and Reese Shearsmith as Ray. Kay as the down-to-earth man driving with a sense of humour is very likable, and Foulkes is very talkative and slightly annoying, but at the same very lovable, together they are a perfect at first awkward but perfect couple as they talk and laugh with each other in each journey, a simple but brilliantly written and played out comedy sitcom. Very good!

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    tr91

    I've never really been a massive fan of Peter Kay so I was quite surprised by how much I actually enjoyed this show. Each episode provided enough laughs to keep me coming back for more.I liked the whole concept of the show, 95% of the time is just John & Kayleigh in the car together (occasionally some other characters join them) going to and from work. This comedy is unique in that way because we learn a lot about the characters just from their conversations, we don't actually see anything about their personal lives. If we did I suspect it may have been a bit generic.Peter Kay and Sian Foulkes had a great on screen chemistry and I liked how their friendship developed by simply sharing a car and getting to know each other as we the viewer also got to know them. Sian Foulkes stole the show for me with great comedic timing, she is just a very quirky character.The jokes were very funny and each episode had it's main subplot to follow which kept it fresh. The jokes never seemed repetitive. My favourite episodes were when Kayleigh and John were discussing dogging & also when they give a lift to a colleague (Reece Shearsmith). Also when Peter Kay had a laughing fit it made me have one too.Some parts that I didn't think worked so well was there seemed to be too much singing and also the daydreaming stuff was a bit tedious after a few episodes.Overall it was a comedy that I enjoyed and I hope to see it renewed for more episodes. I hope the two of them can carry on car sharing but I have a feeling that if there is another series then Peter Kay may have a new car sharing partner. A nice lite comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously.8/10.

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    spioncap

    The best comedy on British TV for years. Peter Kay at his best - likable, subtle and very, very funny. You need to watch the episodes a few times to catch all the background humour from the radio station and off shot signs etc "Husband Missing. Last seen entering....." "Brillington College ......"A comedy that slowly turned into a love story that will surely be recommissioned sooner rather than later. Mr Kay was predictably good and Sian Gibson was more than a match. For a change the Beeb didn't let a new comedy stew for a series or two on BBC 3 or 4. Superb. Can't wait for more.

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