Catastrophe
- TV sitcom
- Channel 4
- 2015 - 2019
- 24 episodes (4 series)
Sitcom starring Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan as a couple who make a 'bloody mess' of falling in love. Also features Ashley Jensen, Mark Bonnar, Carrie Fisher, Jonathan Forbes, Frances Tomelty and more.
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Catastrophe, series two, episode one, review
Full of black farce and unflinching observation, the year's best comedy richly deserves its swift second series, says Michael Hogan.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 27th October 2015Review: Catastrophe series 2
All in all, it makes for a complex, delicious sweet-and-sour taste that will keep the critical garlands flooding in. And deservedly so, for this is proper grown-up comedy in which the consequences are not only hilarious - but credible, too.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 27th October 2015Our Catastrophe characters will really suffer this series
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney reveal whether their real life spouses are jealous of their bond, what Sarah Jessica Parker is really like and plans to make a third series...
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 27th October 2015No one wants a catastrophe, other than all of us who wanted a second series of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's comedy, which returns with catastrophic consequences.
Nothing too catastrophic is present, other than a party for Rob and Sharon's newborn that's been planned by a sadist, unwanted trouser incidents, and a party for Rob and Sharon's newborn that's been planned by perhaps two or three sadists, rather than the one.
The spiky and naturalistic sparring between Horgan and Delaney continues as if a breath hadn't been drawn between the end of the first and beginning of the second series, conversations splattered with a lush filthiness. Their writing sessions must end with them, their laptops, and all the walls needing a good bleaching to wash away the lines which are left smeared from the process. And you wonder what that might be, after Carrie Fisher delivers a line regarding Riverdance which will wreck Princess Leia in the gold bikini for blokes to a Ross-Geller level.
Pure, impure gold, this is a total opposite of a catastrophe. As long your name's not Mabel and you're a dog.
Toby Earle, Evening Standard, 27th October 2015Catastrophe - Series 2 preview
Despite the time jump, I love that when Sharon calls Rob she still comes up as "Sharon London Sex" on his phone, reminding us all how they got into this ridiculous situation in the first place.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 25th October 2015TV preview, Catastrophe, C4
I feel as if I have been waiting most of my life for a comedy that reflected my romantic experiences as an adult.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th October 2015Rob Delaney & Sharon Horgan pick their TV couples
From Kermit and Miss Piggy to Jack and Vera Duckworth the Catastrophe stars let rip on bad love.
Sharon Horgan & Rob Delaney, The Guardian, 24th October 2015Interview: Catastrophe's back
In the first season of brilliant Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney nearly killed us with funny via their accidental pregnancy-fuelled love struggle. They're back - and love hasn't got any easier, they tell Hannah Dunleavy.
Hannah Dunleavy, Standard Issue, 23rd October 2015Stars of Catastrophe discuss the comedy's new series
Series 1 was a surprise hit, and now British sitcom Catastrophe returns for a second round of heart-warming humour and chaos. Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney chat about 'unsexy' sex scenes and the challenge of keeping love alive.
Gemma Dunn, The Bristol Post, 21st October 2015Be Mine
These shows are a sharp and likable crowd, unafraid of fun and pleasure, like friends of friends at a party you're glad you showed up for. In contrast to Hollywood's rom-coms--whose pleasures often feel like "settling"--their TV analogues have a romanticism that is at once earnest and earned.
Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 21st September 2015