Catherine Shoard 

Honeymooner – review

A by-the-numbers soap-style Britcom about a jilted fiance that's not worth much love, writes Catherine Shoard
  
  

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Out on a limb ... Honeymooner Photograph: PR

Short and slightly sour, this no-budget Brit soap plays out like a depressed episode of Hollyoaks, were the cast a decade older, no wiser, and interns in Kentish Town. Our hero is Fran, whose fiancee dumped him four weeks ago, all too explicably. His laddish mates try and perk him up while juggling their own mildly complicated love lives. It's quite nicely acted, in a lo-fi kind of way (Daisy Haggard, especially, manages to perk up the script), but it's also fantastically unambitious, cliched and snooze-inducing. It's the kind of honeymoon that would have you phoning your divorce lawyer before the flight home.

 

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