Get your Tina Turner wig and strongest Scottish accent ready, because the divine comedy that is Limmy’s Show Series 2 & 3 is about to arrive on Netflix. Feel free to join in with your own festivities, but we’ve just blown up a balloon and drawn a picture of Limmy on it, as well as letting off a monochrome streamer in celebration of the news. Three cheers for Limmy! Oggy oggy oggy. Hot dog!
The two series will arrive in their moreish entirety with a total of twelve episodes (six from each series, obviously) appearing on Netflix from the 1st October 2016. Depending on how addicted you get, this will either take between a single day and nine and a half week to watch, but equally, how far you’ve managed to make it through Stranger Things yet could also impact your viewing, so be warned.
If you haven’t seen the show before it’s a bit like Train Spotting meets The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer hand whisked in a blender and divided by a duet. It’s created, written and directed by the talent, Brian Limond, so anything goes and any arguments about whether material should have made it into Limmy’s Show are restricted to a prosaic internal monologue en Scottage.
Essentially, it’s a sketch show of sorts with Limond as the main man in all of the chalk etchings (thesaurus, ayee!) with a range of characters including an alternative version of himself in excessively bland comedy mode, a brilliant phone-in equivalent to Nightmare called Falconhoof and a parody of TV psychics. Pretty much all of the sketches can go from mild comedy to darkly shadoic macabre spectres in the blink of an eye lash, so you better watch yourself.
Our favourite character is Dee Dee, a smart Scottish raconteur brought low by the minutia of the trivial in a spaced out trip of an introverted life. However, Jacqueline McCafferty comes in a close second as she struggles with the aftermath of three eyars lost to heroin and another five to the methadone salvation. If they’re not enough to inspire some form of spiritual awakening in you, then you’re probably a lost cause.
While the first two series were released on DVD, the addition of Limmy’s Show Series 2 & 3 to Netflix will be the first time the comedy has ventured beyond the confines of BBC. Hopefully, it’ll see Bri getting the attention he deserves, going mainstream and taking up one of the Strictly Come Dancing 2017 spots alongside Chesney Hawkes and Anthea Turner, only to dance every night to Nutbush City Limits. Check out the clip below from the first episode of Series 3, just in case you were thinking of wearing no socks to work tomorrow.
