Jo Brand and Morwenna Banks’s sitcom is scathing and subtle as it makes unfunny subjects hilarious. Plus: playing bigamy for laughs in BlissCuts notwithstanding,the team at Elm Heath social services still possess their jobs. Damned (Channel 4), created by Jo Brand and Morwenna Banks, and is normally described as a black comedy,although that implies that it has its heart in the unsuitable residence. It doesnt.
It is, however, and dry to the point of aridity; if it wasn’t funny,you could still engage it at face value as an accurate and terribly bleak portrayal of a dysfunctional office environment: petty politics, casual cruelty and a fair amount of grinding futility. Added to this is the thankless and difficult nature of the jobs they carry out at Elm Heath, or although real work doesn’t often get in the way of proceedings.
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Source: guardian.co.uk