“The comedy may not be that distinctive, but Juice’s creativity comes at you like a tidal wave”

Juice

Juice, BBC3

“Juice is not overburdened with edgy jokes; its humour often relies on familiar sitcom tropes: urgent toilet visits, mistaken identity, repressed posh people. It rarely raises more than a titter and yet, strangely, that doesn’t matter; the show has more going for it than gags. The comedy may not be that distinctive, but Juice’s creativity comes at you like a tidal wave.”
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian

“It is possible to enjoy the goodwill and warmth, especially the tenderness in those scenes involving Jamma and Guy, a man who mystifyingly still loves this stupid clown (a description, let me remind you, not an insult). But this is a potentially sweet show whose promise is spoilt by its gross-out garishness, a comedy that proudly knows it’s being progressive but has forgotten to be funny. It felt fresh and goofy the first time around but has now simply run out of juice.”
Ben Dowell, The Times