Simon Hoggart

Sex lives and videotape

Him and Her (BBC 3) is the BBC’s notion of a really edgy sitcom.

issue 11 September 2010

Him and Her (BBC 3) is the BBC’s notion of a really edgy sitcom.

Him and Her (BBC 3) is the BBC’s notion of a really edgy sitcom. This is not My Family. The first words uttered are from a bloke who is in bed with his girlfriend. ‘You. Are. Very good at blow jobs.’

‘Thank you,’ she says demurely.

‘And I am brilliant at receiving them.’

Moments later we see her sitting on the loo, and not just for a pee. Then a neighbour drops round to discuss, inter alia, Kate Winslet’s breasts, and how everyone pauses that bit on the Titanic DVD.

I found myself wondering what would have happened if an advance tape had been shown to Lord Reith. ‘It is, um, er, director-general, somewhat experimental in tone and content.’

‘Let me take a look, laddie! Ah yes, this is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing! Y’see, that is how young people talk to each other these days.

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