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The BBC shared a new teaser for Ill Behaviour yesterday (embedded below), while another great review for Ill Behaviour has been shared on Yahoo, with some kind words about Tom Riley as Charlie. Read it in full on the website (note Lizzy Caplan's name is spelled incorrectly), and catch up with Ill Behaviour on BBC iPlayer

Ill Behaviour manages to pull off a clever trick in its opening scenes. It starts with standard sitcom fare; Joel (Chris Geere) has been left by his wife of ten years. He’s sitting on a balcony in his underwear, and throwing money off the side of a building. You could build a programme around this moment on its own – with Charlie (Tom Riley) and Tess (Jessica Regan) helping Joel rebuild his life, sending him off on dates with Nadia (Lizzy Kaplan) and so on and so forth. And up to a point it does this – but it breezes quickly through it, an act of narrative substitution shifts quickly away from a despondent Joel...

...Part of why it succeeds is because of the strength of the performance of its leads. Tom Riley and Chris Geere have a strong chemistry together, imbuing their interactions with a real sense of shared history, even as their friendship grows ever more fraught. Lizzy Kaplan is note perfect throughout, and Jessica Regan is in many respects the stand out performer – she’s got brilliant comic timing, and fantastic delivery. Of course, Geere deserves extra plaudits for anchoring the programme as its the unconventional leading man; Joel walks a fine line between admirable and despicable, and Geere realises the character fantastically...

...Ultimately, Ill Behaviour is an engaging programme with a wit as quick as it is dark. It takes its absurd premise and plays it straight – it’s emotional in genuinely unexpected ways, and leaves a lasting impact long after the credits roll.

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