It manages to inject sensationalism into the most mundane of concepts, resulting in the world that ours could have been, were the creator a little more self-indulgent. Jamie Demetriou’s brainchild (co-written with Brian Popper) is a heartfelt, absurd, hilarious love letter to normal life. In fact, Stath Lets Flats is a uniqueness convention, in which a million subverted jokes, idiosyncratic characters and entirely novel sentence constructions meet to bounce ideas off each other. There’s a lot of gas before we go on stage’Īnd it has succeeded in leaving a note of real peril: will the odious, coked-up Julian force the Greeks out of the company? Will Sophie and Al ever be together? Will I ever recover from watching Stath and Katia exchange curt gratitudes for their mutual pleasure? We have one week to find out.There is something unique about Stath Lets Flats. Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White: ‘We need the audience, but we fear them. But it’s the bizarre inability of its central characters to grasp reality that makes Stath so unique. The show is visually detailed and rich, with brilliantly-timed physical gags (here a sex scene so odd it was almost unbearable). Here, a series of misadventures took Stath, Sophie, Sophie’s new boyfriend Cem, her best friend Katia and her would-be lover Al on an excruciating (but very mature) group date to a pizza restaurant – “Can I have the Tom Tom Cheesy?” Al (Al Roberts) is the fifth wheel on the double pizza date in Stath Lets Flats (Photo: Channel 4) It is like watching toddlers pretend to be adults, imitating snatches of conversation or behaviours they have seen older people do on American TV. Particularly in the case of Stath ( played by the show’s creator Jamie Demetriou) – whose pubescent insecurities about his place in his family and the business are raw – and his sweet sister Sophie (his real sister, Natasia).
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