MartinHafer I have been a HUGE fan of Matt Lucas and his work on shows like "Little Britain" and "Come Fly With Me"--excellent television programs that have made me laugh out loud for several years. So, I was very excited to see that he'd made a new program--a made for Netflix show called "Pompidou". The idea for the show sounded great--a man from a rich, noble British family has fallen on hard times and has been forced to leave his manor to live in a trailer! However, despite a promising idea, the show is simply god-awful and practically impossible to watch. Much of it is because the show just isn't funny--a serious problem for a comedy! Much of this is because instead of dialog, Lucas and the rest of the cast mumble instead of talk--making the experience a bit like watching "Mr. Bean" or "The Baldy Man"...unfunny versions of these other shows. Perhaps the program will improve in later episodes but I don't see how. It's so bad I simply cannot make myself give it another try. Horribly written and a waste of talent.

gibbleth If you like quirky, this show is for you. It's rather over the top, but also quite inventive.A disgraced Lord Pompidou, his butler and his dog live in a sublime mashup of 'caravans' (known as travel trailers here in the US), and scheme daily to get back their glory, or at least get something to eat.Eliminating most speaking, I think, brings out Matt's acting talents as he ends up 'showing, not telling' most of the time.The dog really completes the piece, and is very well done, with a large collection of expressions while still retaining essential dogness. I puzzled over it a bit before I was sure it was a puppet; it's that good.I will have to warn the prospective watcher of this show: nothing really makes any sense. It is subtle slapstick of a really new kind, which is pretty rare on television these days and I, personally, applaud Netflix for putting this sort of show on.

chris-73441 I do understand most people would not really like Pompidou. However I come from truly enjoying and knowing most of the Laurel and Hardy shorts - and to me Pompidou is a great mash up of the old Laurel and Hardy formula with a modern twist to it. Knowing the old material, there are lots of parallels and they are done quite well.But they could do better. These initial six episodes - I can only take one per sitting. The "dialog" is funny but I can only take so much. I do like how they will pick certain words that can be heard clearly, such as the signature "That really hurt me" and "out". But I have to say every one of the six contain several moments that are hilarious to me.

eamonster 4 episodes in and Wow… talk about dross TV.There is only one good element to this show and that's the puppet dog. The dog is the creation of the people that helped to make another BBC show called 'Mongrels' (epic win). To watch Pompidou just to enjoy the puppet character Marion though would be like; eating crap just to enjoy a piece of sweet corn. BBC Controller of Comedy Commissioning Shane Allen said: "The concept is wonderfully imaginative, the writing hugely inventive and it's the perfect vehicle for Matt – one of a handful of performers in the whole world who could pull this off."Well.. it isn't, it isn't, it may well be and he couldn't. The "writers" last "wrote" for Chucklevision BTW.Danny Cohen should have stopped this sham… was he on holiday?