Wasted

2016

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  • 1

7.3| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

Four mates waste their twenties in a West Country village. Morpheus, a geeky conspiracy theorist runs a mystical souvenir shop with his unambitious sister, Sarah. His scrounger best friend Kent sleeps on their sofa rent-free, and his secret crush, Alison, runs a new age healing business at the back of the shop. Mixing the misadventures of twenty something life with visually surreal set pieces, it's about the very bad things that really good friends do to each other, when they've been living in each other's pockets since school.

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Steineded How sad is this?
Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
sirhoon Having spent the last part of the 90's in the UK including some dabbling in the drug culture, well, I really relate to this show and think it is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. It's not"stoner" comedy because they don't just get stoned. In fact a lot of it is straight with the interaction of the "waster" characters just doing and saying stupid waster things. In other words, it's mint. Kind of a modern day cheech and chong set in a small British village with four friends and Sean Bean as his GOT character playing Morpheus' subconscious. Obviously innit! Childish? maybe. Funny? I certainly think so. Please make another season.
barrysmith-86055 Had read a few bits about this and wasn't sure I'd like it but I took the plunge and it had me creasing up all the time. Writing really funny. Directed and edited really well. Loved all the cast. Especially Sean Bean and Morpheus. Morpheus steals the show because you kind of feel for him . thought the acting was great, slightly heightened but genuine and funny. It's like Spaced crossed with inbetweeners. Favourite episode was the Berryman and the last EP. All the game of thrones references were superb. Hopefully they get to do another series. It definitely deserves another run. Hope Sean Bean comes back too. Top marks to all involved
ollyridyard Just watched the first two episodes. Only watched the second to 'give it a chance'. A friend recommended this was a great comedy and that using Sean Bean was 'genius'. I will say using Sean Bean is 'wasted' is far more appropriate. Pun intended. Could not believe that the Daily Telegraph Culture section gave it 4/5 stars. But then their review title 'Sean Bean steals the show as he parodies his Game of Thrones ghost' is essentially a euphemism or polite way of saying 'this is garbage, Sean Bean makes it just tolerable'. It felt like it was ripping off Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz/Simon Pegg in general. My Wife then read some reviews out that said exactly the same.The humour considering they are '20 somethings' would have been juvenile to me when I was 20. K.M.N. and 50 minutes of my life wasted spring to mind (plus the extra 5 minutes to write this review). Avoid like the plague as there are funny ways to spend an hour.
loftyonthehill-69-847141 Death and taxes are the only certainties in life said Franklin supposedly. There are of course others. Readers of The Sun "newspaper" (ahem!) will always vote the way it tells them to even if this is seriously detrimental to their own well-being. People that start a conversation with "I'm not (fill in the blank) but..." invariably exhibit the trait to which they've just issued a denial. Duckworth-Lewis will ever remain an unfathomable equation to everyone bar Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis. Classic television series will always spawn inferior imitators for years to come.Regarding the latter we come to Wasted which tips its hat to C4's groundbreaking Spaced from nearly two decades ago. So, is it as good as the show that put Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Jessica Hynes on the map? Err... No but don't write off this immediately if you're more millennial than Generation X.Basically, this is Spaced lite set in Bristol with Inbetweeners level humour. Poo jokes? Check. Drug jokes? Check. Sex/masturbation jokes? Check. Drunk/vomit jokes? Check.There is slightly more to this West Country foursome and that's where it gets a bit odd. The Sean Bean/Ned Stark spirit guide and the Sega Master System game references feel very like nineties comic writing which jars when placed into the realm of twenty-somethings in 2016, almost like the writers are at least thirty years older than the actors they're scripting for. Despite this, there is much promise amongst the young cast particularly Danny Kirrane (Morpheus) and Gwyneth Keyworth (Alison) and I can see them getting better roles than this offers.Unfortunately Wasted should have the word "Opportunity" added to the title as there is the bare bones of something good here that ultimately ends up in the bowl with the puerile and scatological filler. Just not enough gold to sift through the dirt for me. Four stars but add 1-3 stars if you're under 25 and like drugs/sex/poo (delete as applicable).Interestingly, 4OD asks for age verification to watch Wasted due to drugs and sexual references. Considering that under 18s, with their superior knowledge on such things (thanks to internet porn and the abject failure of the War on Drugs) and inferior level of humour are the most likely to get anything out of it which is why it's on E4 (Channel 4's youth arm) that, Alanis Morissette, is ironic.