Review
‘It’s well funny like!’
Okay so a few honest words and a bit of self-actualisation here but hey ho…
I’ve spent a lot of quarantine thinking about how much of a useless human being I am. There were people out there risking it all saving lives in hospitals and really making a difference. I’m a creative who fannys about with images and stories. I hated myself and felt my career decisions were not really adding much value to society.
Then one cloudy afternoon during lockdown after a pretty shitty day mum asked if we could watch something good on the telly for half hour or so. I chose Young Offenders. Having already binge watched both series, I thought it was one of the best comedies to grace the screens in a long time. I pressed play. We watched and we laughed together. For a while we forgot about the world and all the painful things going on outside our door. Here we were smiling and happy. And I realised the sort of work I do is to put a smile on your face if you’ve had a rough week, to give you a bit of hope when life throws you shit. Alright, so I can’t perform brain surgery, prescribe you the right cream for that rash or analyse your blood test results. But what I can try to do is give you a different kind of medicine, love. Young Offenders can do that too.
Every episode is a shining (occasionally bogey stained) vignette that’ll make you laugh, cry and feel just a little bit better about it all. So tuck in and have a laugh with the lads from Cork. You can access series 1 & 2 on iPlayer.
Millie Mussett 