Alan has a visit from the Inland Revenue and gets caught out when name dropping.
This for me is a slightly weaker episode in comparison to the standards of the show's other episodes, but it does have some great moments.
The plot is simple. Alan has a fairly important meeting that he ruins with his usual social ineptitude and during a separate scene he lies himself into corner.
Outside of a few laugh-out-loud one liners, the first two thirds of the episode don't really hit the mark for me. Somewhere in all his nervous madness, I find that Alan crosses the line to become annoying. However, the final act involving him trying to con Sonja into believing he knows a famous singer is very funny. Overall, I don't think the writing is really any weaker or different to normal, I just personally do not find it as funny.
Steve Coogan as excellent as ever, as are the rest of the cast.
For me it is a 7.5/10, but I like to round upwards.
This for me is a slightly weaker episode in comparison to the standards of the show's other episodes, but it does have some great moments.
The plot is simple. Alan has a fairly important meeting that he ruins with his usual social ineptitude and during a separate scene he lies himself into corner.
Outside of a few laugh-out-loud one liners, the first two thirds of the episode don't really hit the mark for me. Somewhere in all his nervous madness, I find that Alan crosses the line to become annoying. However, the final act involving him trying to con Sonja into believing he knows a famous singer is very funny. Overall, I don't think the writing is really any weaker or different to normal, I just personally do not find it as funny.
Steve Coogan as excellent as ever, as are the rest of the cast.
For me it is a 7.5/10, but I like to round upwards.
