I absolutely love crass and intelligent British humor. If you are a fan of Spaced, Peep Show, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, and Fresh Meat you will love Wasted. Though similar with these other brilliant comedies it stands on its own as a very unique and original series. The cast is amazing!! and I quickly fell in love with every one of them even "The Holy Man" LOL!!

I constantly search the internet for good comedy shows, because I love to laugh or at least be amused by television, which means I am living in state of likely disappointment. When I find something decent I want other people to know about it.I will not go as far as calling this show brilliant, but after the two first episodes I have a fuzzy, warm feeling of anticipation about what is to come. I am probably not the right demographic, but, hey, I was partying in the 90s, and there are some references to those days. In fact, it might as well have been set in the 90s - minus smart phones.The cast really works, the writing is even better, and the production will have no complaints from me. I have not seen this particular twist before, so full points on originality.I recommend this show to anybody who likes their comedy a bit bent out of shape!

Death and taxes are the only certainties in life said Franklin supposedly. There are of course others. Readers of The Sun "newspaper" (ahem!) will always vote the way it tells them to even if this is seriously detrimental to their own well-being. People that start a conversation with "I'm not (fill in the blank) but..." invariably exhibit the trait to which they've just issued a denial. Duckworth-Lewis will ever remain an unfathomable equation to everyone bar Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis. Classic television series will always spawn inferior imitators for years to come.Regarding the latter we come to Wasted which tips its hat to C4's groundbreaking Spaced from nearly two decades ago. So, is it as good as the show that put Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Jessica Hynes on the map? Err... No but don't write off this immediately if you're more millennial than Generation X.Basically, this is Spaced lite set in Bristol with Inbetweeners level humour. Poo jokes? Check. Drug jokes? Check. Sex/masturbation jokes? Check. Drunk/vomit jokes? Check.There is slightly more to this West Country foursome and that's where it gets a bit odd. The Sean Bean/Ned Stark spirit guide and the Sega Master System game references feel very like nineties comic writing which jars when placed into the realm of twenty-somethings in 2016, almost like the writers are at least thirty years older than the actors they're scripting for. Despite this, there is much promise amongst the young cast particularly Danny Kirrane (Morpheus) and Gwyneth Keyworth (Alison) and I can see them getting better roles than this offers.Unfortunately Wasted should have the word "Opportunity" added to the title as there is the bare bones of something good here that ultimately ends up in the bowl with the puerile and scatological filler. Just not enough gold to sift through the dirt for me. Four stars but add 1-3 stars if you're under 25 and like drugs/sex/poo (delete as applicable).Interestingly, 4OD asks for age verification to watch Wasted due to drugs and sexual references. Considering that under 18s, with their superior knowledge on such things (thanks to internet porn and the abject failure of the War on Drugs) and inferior level of humour are the most likely to get anything out of it which is why it's on E4 (Channel 4's youth arm) that, Alanis Morissette, is ironic.

Take the west country accents from Hot Fuzz, the slacker camaraderie of spaced and the pub culture of Wright's trilogy and spaced, then add the super imposed sound effects and camera cuts juxtaposed with mundane actions that Wright's famous for, and a whole mess of other tropes from Wright's works, now imagine all this devoid of any humor and you have Wasted.The show is an insult to Wright who it steals from without adding anything to the formula and it's an insult to the audience as the show is just the window dressing of Wrights work without any thought gone into the comedy, it's all style and no substance and it's completely jarring for it.