Emma Sidi – also excellent in Pls Like – plays a park ranger who catches Dom and Kay doing something suspicious on Walthamstow Marshes. Gotta be done!” Kerry Howard appears for about three very memorable seconds as an incredibly smug police officer who thinks Dom and Kay have conned their way into their own workplace (because they are black, it is implied). Character comedian Colin Hoult is exceptional as community support colleague Pricey, a man whose lame brand of arseholery is best encapsulated by his caff order: “Energy drink straight in the coffee. Amid the starry names (Felicity Montagu, Joanna Scanlan, Rufus Jones, Zoë Wanamaker) are some standout performances. The rest of the cast don’t let them down. Some scenes – such as one where the clueless Kay pretends to know what dogging is – might sound hackneyed on paper, but his delivery is so fresh it feels like the first time anyone has made the joke.
It’s the sort of comedy that lives or dies by its delivery, and these two are pitch perfect. Many jokes stem from the failure of these decidedly non-“street” individuals (spoilt Dom lives at home with her paediatrician dad in a house with an aspirational kitchen, while ebulliently idiotic Kay runs a prayer group) to conduct non-farcical drug deals and play it cool in front of the gang they find themselves awkwardly embroiled in. Animashaun – who you can also see being hilarious in criminally underrated YouTube satire Pls Like – is a natural clown. Ikumelo – who wrote the show alongside Famalam creator Akemnji Ndifornyen (who plays gang member Tevin) and seasoned sitcom writing duo Lloyd Woolf and Joe Tucker (Witless, Click & Collect) – plays the chronically pissed-off Dom with a level of comic timing that makes every sentence a rewindable treat. Mostly, however, it’s down to the show’s two stars. That’s partly because it has a joke density that distinguishes it from the raft of laughter-lite dramedies that currently dominate the streamers.
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