This Country
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2017 - 2020
- 19 episodes (3 series)
Mockumentary series exploring the lives of young people in modern rural Britain. Stars Daisy May Cooper, Charlie Cooper, Paul Chahidi, Trevor Cooper, Michael Sleggs and more.
Streaming rank this week: 504
Press clippings Page 15
This Country is a gem
The faux fly-on-the-wall documentary is silly, funny, sometimes poignant, and oddly warm-hearted.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 15th March 2017Is This Country the best UK comedy since The Office?
What is most impressive, though, is that This Country, such an assured, beautifully paced series, which has earned deserved comparisons with The Office, The Inbetweeners and The Royle Family, has seemingly emerged out of nowhere.
Rupert Hawksley, The Telegraph, 13th March 2017Review: This Country, Episode 5, BBC Three
We can laugh at the antics of the people in This Country - it is hard to decide who is more hopeless this week out of Kerry and Kurtan - but that doesn't mean we haven't also grown to care about them over these episodes. One more week to go, but hopefully there will be another series.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th March 2017Daisy May & Charlie Cooper interview
'It's basically our experience of growing up in the Cotswolds'.
Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 8th March 2017Review: This Country, Episode 4
Kerry gets the entrepreneurial bug this week when her screaming mum lobs her Playstation out of the window and she needs money to buy a new one.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st March 2017Review: This Country, Episode 3, BBC Three
It's a lovely script, with echoes of Victoria Wood, written by the stars, Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper. It does tread a very thin line between sympathy for these marginalised kids and comic piss-take at their stupidity, but it just about gets the balance right.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd February 2017This Country: perfect TV if you grew up in a village
Funny, desperate and spot on, the new BBC comedy about life in a tiny town connects with me in a way no other could. What a terrific achievement.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 22nd February 2017Daisy and Charlie Cooper talk about This Country
"The characters are slightly heightened versions of ourselves," said Charlie. "But we wanted them to be best mates as well."
Ryan Merrifield, Wilts and Glocestershire Standard, 17th February 2017This Country, Episode 2 review
If you haven't seen This Country yet have a look. It might have well-used stylistic elements of both The Office and People Just Do Nothing about it, but it is sharply-written (by its stars Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper) and deftly performed.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th February 2017Review: This Country
While there are hints of Wernham Hogg (and also People Just Do Nothing) in the awkward pauses and glances to camera this does feel different enough to justify further viewing.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th February 2017