Ever Decreasing Circles (1984)
- Genre
- sitcom
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 4 seasons, 27 episodes
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This British sitcom follows a man who likes to keep his life neat and orderly, getting irritated by a more carefree neighbor who keeps disrupting his routines. The show focuses on the small tensions and quiet disappointments of middle-class suburban life.
dryly amusingquietobservationalmelancholicsubtleunderstatedgentlebittersweet
What happens
Ever Decreasing Circles is a British sitcom which ran on BBC1 between 29 January 1984 and 24 December 1989, consisting of four series and one feature-length special. It was written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, and it reunited them with Richard Briers, who had starred in their previous sitcom The Good Life. It was made towards the end of a run of British comedies focussing on the aspirational middle class, with The Guardian describing it as having "a quiet, unacknowledged and deep-running despair to it that in retrospect seems quite daring". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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