The events of the comedy series present a group of students who share the house together. These students are in their first year of study, acting and acting strangely everyday. Comedy begins with Oregon and Professor Shiles courting strange and unpredictable levels when he drives them to clean his oven. On the other hand, she hopes to meet her and Kingsley, but her plans have been spoiled by her boyfriend.
The world of the fresher is too obvious a target - reinvention, a practice in which people indulge wholeheartedly on arrival at university, being both inherently foolish and fraught with risk.
Fresh Meat is for anyone who has ever gone to university, and not just for people who happen to be there now. It's also well-crafted, poignant and very, very amusing - let's hope we don't have to wait another 30 years for something just as good.
There have been other raw-edged human comedies that, should have been universally hailed as classic rather than cult, but with the right tail wind and if the writers and actors can maintain the pace, Fresh Meat will be name-dropped for a long time.
What Culture
November 13, 2018
Hopefully episode 1 is just a slow start to the series as I expect a lot more from the writers of Peep Show!
It's close-to-the-bone, dark comedy with a house of brilliantly drawn characters that are elevated from student stereotypes to personalities whose ludicrous moments we savour - even if uni is a distant memory.
Lectures, socials, pubs, clubs, libraries, dates and labs are all undermined by the urge to fit in and feel at home. Fresh Meat manages to capture this to the extreme and this is why the series has been enjoyed by so many.
