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Season Three Review
Liam Williams criminally underappreciated autobiographical sitcom "Ladhood" arrives at its bittersweet conclusion. I was turned on to the show by the second season being included in the Guardian's top 50 TV shows of 2021 list. Whilst I can see why some were unwilling to engage with what, on the surface, looks like an "Inbetweeners" clone, "Ladhood" largely replaces that gross out humour with a sense of Pathos.
With college coming to an end, Liam (Oscar Kennedy) is given the opportunity to interview to go to Cambridge but it's reliant on him making a good impression and getting straight A's in his A-Levels. Adna (Aqib Khan) also has ambitions on university but has moved into a flat with Ralph (Samuel Bottomley) and Craggie (Shaun Thomas) who are already working. In the present day, Liam (Liam Williams) is struggling to find motivation in his advertising job and is about to be turned out of his flat.
I thought previously that there was a step up in quality between seasons one and two, not that season one was bad, just that season two was more consistently funny. Season three was, for me, about par with the second run. It still has the "have it's cake and eat it" element of romanticising his youth whilst undercutting it with some harsh realities, both about then and now. The loss of your teenage friends is something that most of us have to face up to and that fear, grief but opportunity and excitement and that is the prominent theme of this season.
So, it's excellent, but I do agree it's the right time to bring the show to an end, both before the younger cast age out of playing teenagers and the show is forced to start repeating itself. But it's a poignant and funny time and I look forward to seeing what Liam Williams writes next.
With college coming to an end, Liam (Oscar Kennedy) is given the opportunity to interview to go to Cambridge but it's reliant on him making a good impression and getting straight A's in his A-Levels. Adna (Aqib Khan) also has ambitions on university but has moved into a flat with Ralph (Samuel Bottomley) and Craggie (Shaun Thomas) who are already working. In the present day, Liam (Liam Williams) is struggling to find motivation in his advertising job and is about to be turned out of his flat.
I thought previously that there was a step up in quality between seasons one and two, not that season one was bad, just that season two was more consistently funny. Season three was, for me, about par with the second run. It still has the "have it's cake and eat it" element of romanticising his youth whilst undercutting it with some harsh realities, both about then and now. The loss of your teenage friends is something that most of us have to face up to and that fear, grief but opportunity and excitement and that is the prominent theme of this season.
So, it's excellent, but I do agree it's the right time to bring the show to an end, both before the younger cast age out of playing teenagers and the show is forced to start repeating itself. But it's a poignant and funny time and I look forward to seeing what Liam Williams writes next.
- southdavid
- Sep 14, 2022
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