Why 'Fresh Meat' is off my menu

Channel 4's student comedy Fresh Meat makes poor situation comedy.

Fresh Meat proved itself with drugged-up sixth episode

Fresh Meat may not be the most innovative or original of comedy series, but Jack Whitehall and the gang have earned their second series.

Have you been watching... Fresh Meat?

Student life in a shared house sounds like a stale scenario, but the Peep Show writers have rustled up a tastier dish.

Review: Fresh Meat, 1.6

Rather strangely, Fresh Meat seems to be getting less funny as the weeks pass.

Reality bites hard in student land this week. With two deaths in a single episode, this delicate balancing act of tragedy and comedy is a big ask for any writer, but it works because the characters have become so much more than just two dimensional cut-outs.

And so, on a typical Monday we find Vod (in a fabulous kimono) working her way through the alphabet of drug classification, while JP is meeting his dad for "the mother of all brunches".

That's just one of several casually brilliant lines that highlight the protective layer of fake bravado these freshers have wrapped themselves in as they try to reinvent themselves in their new surroundings.

None of them have done that more comprehensively than secretly-posh Oregon.

In a desperate bid to blend in she's changed her colours like a chameleon. But tonight she's forced to make a major detour from her cover story.

Anyone who has seen E4's Made in Chelsea may be shocked by how much the posh young bucks of real life resemble Fresh Meat's resident toff, JP. That's partly why Jack Whitehall's performance is so sharp - it seems like a big, braying caricature, but maybe it isn't at all.

There's a change of gear for him tonight when JP has to show some real, heartfelt emotion - and he's not the only one. It's the darkest, least larky episode so far.

New Fresh Meat to debut online tonight

Student comedy takes a break next week - but a new episode will be released on 4oD.

Andrew Collins: Fresh Meat review

I haven't written about Fresh Meat, now five hour-long episodes into its first series of six on C4, but it is officially my favourite comedy of 2011.

Fresh Meat grew stronger with another riotous episode

Fresh Meat has been hit-and-miss at times, but with this protest-focussed fifth episode, it rewarded fans who've stuck it out this far.