Good? Oh man you bet they are
OF all the various lockdown telly ideas, this one with David Tennant and Michael Sheen is absolute genius.
We already know the two ‘can-do-nowrong’ actors have brilliant on screen chemistry after seeing them as the devil and the angel in Good Omens.
In these 15-minute hits of sheer joy, the mates play versions of themselves facing their own actor-ey, lockdown problems.
The premise is that Tennant and Sheen were due to put on a play in the West End before the production was put on hold because of the pandemic.
Both are quite happy to forget the whole thing, but the play’s panicking director Simon Evans (played by himself ) wants to convince them to carry on rehearsing online.
“When the theatres reopen, everyone else wastes six weeks but we swan into town. The British public will need entertainment,” he pleads.
Tennant needs to be told how to use Zoom by his wife, actress Georgia Tennant, then he has to convince a reluctant Sheen to join in.
There are egos to massage – Tennant lies to Sheen that Evans loved his Hamlet – and constant interruptions caused by homeschooling, kids, cooking and general lockdown life.
Sometimes everyone is just yawning and looking out of the window, Sheen is worried he’s about to be attacked by birds, while Tennant is derailing and has started spelling words backwards in his head.
A very funny series of ramblings, involving sketches of pineapples, drinking problems, internet disasters and a constant tussle of ego and insecurities.