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Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby
Mr Gormsby is the antithesis of politically correct.
A crabby sexist, racist character, Mr. Gormsby is a teacher in a school
who would like nothing better than to get rid of him. Taking place in
New Zealand in a made up school, quite frankly I found this show to be
quite off putting.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll watch and enjoy just about
anything but racism as humour in my opinion is not funny and no matter
how objective I’ll try to be I simply won’t tolerate it as humour any
day, no sir.
Bawdy humour, sure, grumpy nasty people, I’m there
with a laugh and while I am sure that this is social satire and I know
that there are people like that everywhere, I just couldn’t warm to the
character or the show. Whilst I know that the laugh is meant to be at
Gormsby, much the same as the laughter was meant to be directed at Ted
Bullpit in Kingswood Country, it wasn’t funny then to me and this is not
funny now.
Give it a miss unless you are at the bottom of the
barrel with this show. |
