Review of Absolutely Mental - Good concept spoilt

Good concept spoilt

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“It’s a shame, because the first minute or so led me to think that Gervais and Harris had hit upon a winning formula. That is, Gervais embraces his inner-child to ask of a neuroscientist those almost impossible questions that come so easily to the child’s mind, whilst also keeping the show lively, offsetting the dulcet tones of Harris’ interesting explanations of what is currently known about dreams. Unfortunately, Gervais cannot keep his inner-child reigned in. We barely get to hear Harris’ response to the first question, and titular topic of the episode. Instead of making use of Harris’ expertise to learn about something, his responses are swamped by Gervais’ stumbling interruptions down random tangents into off the cuff speculations, leading us further and further away from the original subject. Ricky seems only to be interested in his own answers, and to get a word in Harris’ has to resort to asking the questions. Some of this has its place in the podcast, but as it stands it’s far, far too dominant and I’m actually surprised they released this episode, especially as the series debut. Perhaps in the later episodes Gervais can contain himself. Maybe one day we’ll try the podcast again to find out, but I think that my wife and I found this debut too frustrating to find out any time soon.”

a.RockLobster via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 05/20/21

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