Small Potatoes (1999–2001) User Reviews

a tiny series with huge humour and wonderful actors

[prideaux · 10/10 · 23 September 2006]

I've rarely seen and appreciated as much as SMALL POTATOES... Poor blokes and a girl, just lost in our world, trying to live and dreaming of a new life, really touching and moving and soooo funny. Too bad it is not broadcasted again, it is impossible to find a video or a DVD. Emma Rydal, as Juliet, is incredibly good. The boys are all, each in his own category, great. All the characters are well imagined and built. The episodes are well filmed and these little "non-stories" reach your heart, make you laugh and bring you a sincere understanding of all this almost underground population, who are just human beings with their qualities and their weaknesses.

Watch the 2nd series, it`s better!

[James Stephen Barnes · 16 August 2002]

I think "Kate" is being harsh on S.P. The 1st series wasn`t that good, but in Small Potatoes 2, Hoss gets a bigger role, and he`s the funniest.

Plus SP2 has the most amazing theme music EVER!!! Big Brother? The Prisoner? Doctor Who? Pah! Boogie on down to the pumping trance rhythms of the SP2 theme!

Give SP2 a chance, it IS worth staying up for in my opinion. And I should know, I watch loadsa c**p on TV!!!!

J ;-)

What the hell is it with the Title?????

[flight_180 · 22 August 2001]

I only watched this because I was at my Grandmas and me and my brother had to sleep downstairs because there was no room anywhere else. Anyway, it was five past eleven and we just started watching it even though I didn't have a clue what it was. It just interested me because in the TV guide it said something like, 'the boys wake up and find themselves trapped in a black box.' I was like, what the hell? It wasn't that bad really, and it was pretty clever the way it was structured, showing you clips of how they got in the box in the first place. The way it was done was that it went back in time instead of forward, so at first nothing made sense, but as they recalled events even further back in the day it started to fall into place, until eventually, right at the end, you knew why they were trapped in this box. I wouldn't say it was absolutely hilarious, but there was some good humour in it. I'm not sure why it's on too late though, as it doesn't contain any bad language etc. I suppose they just couldn't fit it in anywhere else. Overall, if you've got nothing else to do, put it on one night if it happens to be on, but there's no need to make plans just to watch it. 2 and a half out of a possible 5.