Wasted (2016)

TV sitcom
E4
2016
6 episodes (1 series)

West Country-set sitcom about the stupid things you end up doing when there's nothing to do. Stars Dylan Edwards, Danny Kirrane, Gwyneth Keyworth, Rose Reynolds, Tom Canton and Sean Bean

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Series 1, Episode 1 - Nineties Pills

Wasted. Image shows from L to R: Sarah Durkin (Rose Reynolds), Alison (Gwyneth Keyworth), Paul 'Morpheus' Durkin (Danny Kirrane). Copyright: Angel Eye Media

Kent returns to Neston Berry after failing at being a DJ, much to Morpheus's delight, while Sarah and Alison hear a legend about a mythical stash of nineties pills buried in a field and endeavour to find them. Morpheus resurrects the local pub quiz and meets his spirit guide in the form of Sean Bean.

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Broadcast details

Date: Tuesday 26^th July 2016
Time: 10pm
Channel: E4
Length: 30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Dylan Edwards	Kent
Danny Kirrane	Paul 'Morpheus' Durkin
Gwyneth Keyworth	Alison
Rose Reynolds	Sarah Durkin
Tom Canton	Holy Man
Sean Bean	Sean Bean

Guest cast
Matthew Jacobs Morgan	Jason
Sandra Hunt	June

Writing team
Jon Foster	Writer
James Lamont	Writer

Production team
Tom Marshall	Director
Phil Bowker	Producer
John O'Callaghan	Executive Producer
Richard Osborne	Executive Producer
James Lamont	Associate Producer
Jon Foster	Associate Producer
Robin Peters	Editor
Charlotte Pearson	Production Designer
Sally Broome	Casting Director
Sarah Bartles-Smith	Director of Photography
Jemima Cotter	Costume Designer
My Alehammar	Make-up Designer
Samuel Karl Bohn (as Musical Eye)	Composer

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Morpheus Meets His Spirit Guide

Morpheus passes out whilst getting a tattoo and meets his spirit guide, Sean Bean, for the first time.

Featuring: Dylan Edwards (Kent), Danny Kirrane (Paul 'Morpheus' Durkin), Gwyneth Keyworth (Alison) & Sean Bean (Sean Bean).

Press

Wasted, a new comedy about amiable West Country losers who dedicate themselves with some diligence to getting out of their gourds at every opportunity, had some very nice touches, but relied almost exclusively for its humour on the scatological and I mean health-warning scatological; this was gamey meat indeed. Somehow it succeeded, by ratcheting up the nasties to the point where it's as easy to give a belly laugh as a sigh of relief. But subtle, nuanced it ain't, if you exclude the frankly bizarre presence of Sean Bean as an ancient mentor who appears in visions as a kind of Ned Stark/Boromir cross, but mainly as Sean Bean playing the actor Sean Bean. How did they ever get him to commit? I'm so glad they did. He shows remarkable comic wisdom and who'd have guessed?

Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 31st July 2016

With its trippy camera work, surreal gags and a slew of cultural references, this riotous new six-part comedy about west-country slackers is highly indebted to Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson and Edgar Wright's Spaced. In the first episode of tonight's double bill, head shop owners Morpheus and Sarah, tattoo artist Alison and failed DJ Kent search for a stash of ecstasy from the 90s. Meanwhile, the second episode sees "spirit guide" Sean Bean - in his Ned Stark garb - help out the gang after a messy night in Bath.

Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 26th July 2016

Wasted, review

Wasted was by no means perfect - a scattergun approach meant some gags fell flat and the surreal set pieces occasionally smacked of studenty self-indulgence - but it had a riotous energy and a cheekily irreverent approach to its headline-stealing cameo. Cool Beans.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 26th July 2016

TV review: Wasted, E4

Hilarious slacker comedy starring Sean Bean, Danny Kirrane, Rose Reynolds, Gwyneth Keyworth and Dylan Edwards.

Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 15th July 2016

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