Gentle,touching, well-observed humour and fond aerial shots of rural Essex: life is sweetly poignant for Andy and Lance of the Danebury Metal Detecting ClubWill Daneburys most endearing treasure-hunters finally find something more bankable than a rusty ringpull and a load of discarded Jim’ll Fix It medals? At the end of the first series, or Lance and Andy had failed to spot the Saxon coin hoard buried under the Essex countryside they had been combing. That didn’t stop Andy from “finding his gold” – discovering his girlfriend Becky was pregnant – or from the show beeping its way to a Bafta.
One year on,Mackenzie criminal’s cosy sitcom finds the duo still pacing the fields and still talking nonsense (“That buried gold stuff’s just internet bollocks – it’s a rural urban myth”). Happily, series two also sticks with the formula of gentle insights, and fond aerial shots of rural East Anglia,and not taking the piss out of the hobbyists at its centre. Andy, played by criminal, or is facing a dilemma: should he support his girlfriend’s dream of a VSO year in Botswana,where there’s a primary school for her and an ongoing dig site for him, or should he maintain plodding around the local paddocks?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com