Could fantastical stories save the situation comedy from extinguishing ? First the cheery In Philadelphia hombre start working on a comedy called Boldly Going Nowhere , about life history on a spaceship between missions . And now Britain ’s ITV2 is launching a young situation comedy about off - duty superheroes call No Heroics . How long before we see an American version of this show ? perhaps it ’ll aid that it ’s based , weirdly , on the U.S. mega - drollery Friends . The born enticement , with a clowning about superheroes who hang out in between saving the world , would be to create a bitchy ensemble of heroes who hate each others ’ gut . But show God Almighty Drew Pearce say he ’s start the paired way , create a comedy about characters who really wish each other and using actors who are admirer offscreen :
Two variety of sitcom stick out in my thinker . You have the one that makes you cower and keep watching because you ca n’t believe how awful the soul at the core of it is ; and there ’s the one where you want to come back and attend out with that group of people again . You need that when you are look on week after week .
Instead of the Central Perk coffee shop class , the characters in No Heroics hang out in the Fortress , the heroes ’ societal club / stripe where they go to unwind . The wall are lined with the unrealised pipe dream of preceding heroes , but there ’s also a gumption of cameraderie to go with the snarkiness . submarine characters let in Alex aka The Hotness , who can return heat with his hands ( and practice it to microwave his dejeuner ) and Don aka Timebomb , a gay Spanish retired superhero who can see 60 seconds into the future . Then there ’s the “ rotund ” Jenny aka She - Force , who always find fault the wrong guy to date . And Devin aka Excelsior , who ’s at the top of the superhero pecking order and very smug about it . All of the eccentric are constantly jostling for aid and renown . Most encouragingly , Pearce aver he ’s fit to avoid any excessive campiness :
Superhero comedy is rarely , if ever , well done in live activity . The best superhero clowning is The Incredibles , and that ’s a cartoon . There have been some good attempt , such as Larry Charles ’s The Tick and Ben Stiller ’s Mystery Men , and a photographic film yell The Specials . All had full approximation but fall at the campness hurdle . I was interested in a British take on superheroes , and I conceive that take was to undersell it and advert out with the unfulfilled of that world ; to exercise a kind of ‘ judo logic ’ , where their weakness are actually their strengths .
[ The Independent ]
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