Season 2 – Vicious

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jesse g A series with biting humor. The relationship between the two male leads is one you can't look away from or believe for one moment they don't deeply care for each other. Certainly a shame it did not have a longer run Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/02/25 Full Review Brenda P I just found this show and what a shame it wasn't on longer. The cast was amazing and the humor was the best. Why do all the good show not get renewed? Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/18/24 Full Review bryan R Vicious is one of those comedies I find myself watching over and over again wishing for more! It's very confusing to me why the great comedies such as Vicious gets discontinued and they leave us with the crappy ones 😭 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/26/24 Full Review Audience Member I understand this show had rubbed some viewers the wrong way and has taken plenty of flack, and had more than its share of panning and vitriol hurled at it by the critics (unjustly in my opinion); but I absolutely adored it, and adore it still). And was VERY upset when it got canceled. Way, wayyyyy to early (there's only 14 episodes total in this whole series). Look, right up front, I'm a gay woman. And I'm married to my wife. And of course I love the progression television has made in moving forward since that kiss and come out on Ellen in the 90's (geez, I'm getting old 😂). But that's actually not the biggest reason I love this show. The lead performances are brilliant (the legendary Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi give stellar, nuanced performances as a gay couple who've spent the last 48 years together, and the seems have been showing for a long time as they bite there way through nearly every scene-and each other) , and the supporters here are pitch perfect (the devine Frances De La Tour turns it all on here, with cheeky winks as she smiles through the pain-with some moments painfully sharp as a razor, some bitingly witty, while still others are bottomlessly heartfelt and genuinelylovely-a talk she has with young Ash in the finale brought me to tears) and of course the premise of the show on major network tv was GROUNDBREAKING in the UK. And it's all WONDERFUL. But it's not what I love the most about this show. I love this show because it's so honest, smart, biting, campy and so delightfully, well, viscous; while still having a heart and giving us deliciously funny, FUNNY lines. Yes it was campy. But it also wasn't. At all. Think it was stereotyping?? Well, maybe, but in my opinion it didn't stereotype gay people. It stereotyped PEOPLE WHO'VE BEEN MARRIED/TOGETHER OVER FOUR DECADES. And it stereotyped them, because, well, for many couples this is exactly the way it is!! Chris Rock once said that "stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason...because most of them are true". Well, I'm inclined to take this position on ‘Viscous' for its depiction of an aged couple who've spent the best years of their life together, and sometimes need a reminder why. And how does someone my age know it's true for some couples who are together over 40 years? Because, I have first hand knowledge. My dear father in-law and mother in-law, who just celebrated their 60th (yes, SIXTIETH) wedding anniversary last month, could have been the factual basis and creative inspiration for the characters Freddy and Stuart. She tells him shut the hell up every time he opens his mouth, then asks him if he's going to say something; then says "never mind, you're nothing but a pain in the ass anyway". He tells her he's going to update her insurance policy because he's going to out live her just to spite her. Then marry a 25 yr. old. It's never ending. They bicker from morning to night. And two people have never loved each other more or were more devoted to one another. And we all die laughing every time they're around. It's good willed ribbing. It's getting it as good as it's given. But They go everywhere together, are thick as thieves, utterly steadfast rocks to their family, embracing and warm, would never stand for anyone else saying something viscous to their beloved (this is reflected in the show Viscous when they stand up for each other numerous times against other people talking negatively to the other) and they have done this their whole lives and are literally never apart-he waits in the car why she gets her hair done for Christ sake-and one can't really make it without the other. Its a shame that the haters of this show will probably never understand the love that's actually in this show. Or get why people would spend their time watching it, or living like it, for that matter. And it's truly their loss. There's honest, long lasting and great ease of affection and company under the superficial facade of the viciousness of ‘Viscous's pre-tense verbiage, which is really just stream of consciousness that two people 40+ years on feel so comfortable with each other that they can just let it all spew out and barely ever take offense. But for the viewer who sees and hears the real heart of this show, it gives that viewer a rare joy in watching these characters' lives. A show that just happens to have two men who've loved each other for a very, very long time at its center, giving it to each other as good as they get, and living life with the person they were meant to spend it with, with friends they love around them. And in my book, it doesn't get any better than that. If this sound like a good time to you, give this series a watch. It's a real hidden gem that didn't get near long enough chance to shine that it deserved. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Vicious is a bloody brilliant sitcom, terrible that a third series is not being made. For years I have watched the quality of sitcoms here in the US decline into abmisaly unfunny rubbish, Vicious has been a bright comedy amongst a deteriorating American television landscape with funny characters, solid stories, and very well acted - it's full of humor keeping me laughing! It can only be hoped the series will be resurrected to preserve good sitcom television! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Two of the world's finest Shakespearian actors star in this 'comedy'. Unfortunately all the money is spent on the actors and they forgot to hire a scriptwriter. This is painful, unfunny, vapid rather than 'Vicious'. It is an embarrassment to the gay community, one must assume that McKellen, Jacobi and the other fine actors are all facing bankruptcy - there can't be any other reason they signed up for this absolute drivel. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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