The full length episodes of the first series of the British Comedy "Come Fly with Me" has been available on Netflix for about two weeks. It is the most readily available the full episodes have been in the US, since when they aired on BBC America they were cut down 6 or 7 minutes each, in order to fit into a normal broadcast time slot. The show has been renewed for a second season that will air this fall.
The show is a mockumentary, apparently based on a couple of documentaries on Airports that had aired in Britain, I haven't seen either. Because virtually all of the characters are played by either Matt Lucas or David Walliams, including a number characters in black face and cross dressing, as a result the show often felt irreverent and at times even racist. Most of the humor was generated from the outrageous caricatures and their juxtaposition with the deadly serious voice over narrator. One of the characteristic moments was the owner explaining the new customer friendly and easy to use system of getting passengers credit card numbers to give them a life jacket. This is an absurdist humor, and definitely British and some people will get a huge kick out of it. In fact the show made me guffaw on a couple of occasions. The rest of the time though I was bored. The show has no through story, but is rather just a series of little vignettes. By the time the show was done I was glad to be done with it. If you love British Humor, give it a shot, but as for me...
Conclusion: Off the queue
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