User reviews

I really like season 1. It was funny. Yes, it was really, really weird also, but it was funny.

Season 2 - you just really hate 3 of the 4 main male characters. I mean, you watch a bunch of male characters that you like die, and these other three you just really, really hate and they won't die, they don't die. And they won't go away. It's just not fun.

I still like Roo and EJ. I'd like to see these two actresses in other things.

Sort of like Soap. Seasons 1 and 2 were great, and then it just all fell apart.

A first review of this Australian series, which I feel deserves some attention after seeing the first episode: "Laid" is situated in an environment something like The Office, but with more of a protagonist focus. The series is about Roo, a 29 year old single girl who works at a product marketing firm, desperately searching for Mr Right and the situations she finds herself in by doing so.

Roo is an offbeat kind of person, never quite fitting in at work, never quite sure if what she says is totally off the wall or if it is the current acceptable way of thinking.

The humor is very on the mark and quite racy compared to the more normative and streamlined US TV series, and the main character Roo (Alison Bell) comes off as both real and also very funny.

So hoping that the series keeps its format...

8/10

"Laid" is exactly what Australia has been waiting for. A sitcom that is actually funny, witty, well acted and full of fire. In a dry comedy not too distanced from "Black Books", "Teachers" and "Coupling" Laid's protagonist, Roo McVie, navigates one of the strangest and most hilarious situations imaginable.

An excellent piece of television "Laid" easily eclipses all of the sitcoms for the year so far...watch out Britain! The first episode definitely captures your attention but the ones that follow draw you in to a world of humour so quick and dry that you wont want it to end.

It would be very easy to fall off your chair for laughing too hard...and this is experience talking.

Definitely worth a squiz and if that's not enough to get you hooked I don't know what is.

Alison Bell plays "Roo", a morally-bankrupt woman who can't seem to keep her legs closed for anyone. She sleeps with men she's just met, her best friend's partner and an unconscious man on his deathbed. (In brilliant casting, her father is played by Graeme Blundell, Alvin Purple himself!) The trouble is, once these unfortunate men have slept with her, they die in freak accidents. With the help of her best friend, Roo sets out to find a way to break her curse.

"Laid" wanders rather contrived and distasteful territory. Its renewal for a second season is more an indictment of the Australian television industry than a credit to the series. While there are several genuine laughs in each episode, Roo is such a loathsome central character that we tend to keep her at arm's length to just observe.

Abe Forsythe plays a sulky-looking love interest who shows up at unlikely moments to cause embarrassment for Roo. In reality though, any man would run a mile once learning of her whorish past. Clearly the (female) writers know little about men.

Performances from the main actors are convincing, not easy given the farcical story, though the supporting cast, such as Roo's gynecologist, are pure caricature. Production values are limited due to obvious budget constraints, making the series look like a polished student film.

While there's nothing wrong with black comedy, this series constantly crosses the line. The biggest disappointment is that Roo's own life is never at stake. That, and the fact a vast sum of Australian taxpayer money was spent to bring this abhorrent series to the screen.

S#1 is funny, but weird and some might easily find it distasteful. S#2 got weirder, and seemed to meander. not many laughs. It's different, not in a good way. The reason her sex partners are dying is never revealed; and there is no plausible reason, even in wild speculation or fantasy. As well as the bizzare mystical healer. but in a time when there are films like Sausage Party and the older Animal House, can you fault this for coming to TV.