The Unfriend is a lazy piece of writing that almost certainly would not be in the West End if it did not boast six-time BAFTA winner Steven “Sherlock” Moffat as its author ⭐⭐ ✒️ FionaLondonarts
No matter how outré its premise, a comedy can take flight if it has the complete courage of its own convictions – in its setting, characters and plot mechanism. However,, transferring after a sell-out run at Chichester last year, is a lazy piece of writing that almost certainly would not beif it did not boast six-time Bafta winner Steven “Sherlock” Moffat as its author.
The big point here is certainly considerable: the discovery that your house guest is in fact a murderer, albeit one not convicted due to insufficient evidence. This guest is a certain Elsa Jean Krakowski , whom Peter and Debbie meet on the aforementioned cruise. They strike up a breezy holiday acquaintance, confident that their paths will never cross again in real life. Yet Elsa has other ideas, promptly inviting herself to stay.
If the lines zipped and sparkled this nonsense would be more tolerable, but they do not. Instead, the ruthlessly unfunny scenario grinds on in Mark Gatiss’s production, pummelling ideas that weren’t amusing to start with into utter oblivion by over-extending them. Shearsmith generates more than a touch of Basil Fawlty-style mania, although to considerably less comic effect.
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