Wednesday, 3 October 2018
1112 Mr Bean
First viewed : Uncertain
I really have no idea when I first saw an episode of Rowan Atkinson's near-silent comedy vehicle which first broadcast in 1990. This is partly explained by the very sporadic sequence in which it was broadcast with the fourteen episodes spread out over five years between 1990 and 1995. A fifteenth was made in 1995 but not broadcast until the noughties for reasons which are not readily apparent. Frequent guest star appearances as Bean, two films ( the second worth watching for the gorgeous Emma des Caunes alone ) and an animated series have built on the original series.
Atkinson's Bean is a socially inept manchild who goes to strange and disproportionate lengths to solve everyday problems or frustrations. Apart from a few appearances by an ultra-frumpy girlfriend, there are no other regular characters though plenty of familiar comedy faces playing confused bystanders such as Angus Deayton and Nick Hancock.
I think I've probably seen most of the episodes now because my son really enjoys them.
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Have to give it to Atkinson for creating a character with such global appeal: my partner remembers Bean with much fondness from her childhood, and she grew up in post-revolution Iran!
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