There’s a lot of gas before we go on stage’Īnd it has succeeded in leaving a note of real peril: will the odious, coked-up Julian force the Greeks out of the company? Will Sophie and Al ever be together? Will I ever recover from watching Stath and Katia exchange curt gratitudes for their mutual pleasure? We have one week to find out. Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White: ‘We need the audience, but we fear them. But it’s the bizarre inability of its central characters to grasp reality that makes Stath so unique. In an act of desperation he steals a viewing from arch rival Carole but things don't go to plan. However, he struggles to pick up the phone as fast as the other agents to arrange viewings. The show is visually detailed and rich, with brilliantly-timed physical gags (here a sex scene so odd it was almost unbearable). 51 members Chaotic letting agent Stath needs to impress his dad (and boss) Vasos and let some flats, after losing his patience and pushing a customer. Here, a series of misadventures took Stath, Sophie, Sophie’s new boyfriend Cem, her best friend Katia and her would-be lover Al on an excruciating (but very mature) group date to a pizza restaurant – “Can I have the Tom Tom Cheesy?” Al (Al Roberts) is the fifth wheel on the double pizza date in Stath Lets Flats (Photo: Channel 4) It is like watching toddlers pretend to be adults, imitating snatches of conversation or behaviours they have seen older people do on American TV.
But the story and the set-piece jokes – Stath enjoyed romantically cutting the hair of his colleague and “mayor of gentleman town”, Al (Al Roberts) – weren’t the draw.Particularly in the case of Stath ( played by the show’s creator Jamie Demetriou) – whose pubescent insecurities about his place in his family and the business are raw – and his sweet sister Sophie (his real sister, Natasia). So began Stath’s quest to get a new “park time” job at his cousin’s barbers. While he could barely contain his excitement, it wasn’t exactly good timing – Michael and Eagle had been forced to relocate to his father’s (Christos Stergioglou) house and, until they convinced their landlords to stick with them and found another office, they couldn’t pay anyone. The show picked up nine months after the series two finale, with Carole (Katy Wix) about to give birth to Stath’s (Demetriou) baby at any moment. After a long break, its silly yet heartfelt return last night proved it’s still the daftest show on television.
Stath Lets Flats, Jamie Demetriou’s brilliant series about the off-the-wall, loveable agents at Michael and Eagle Lettings won the Bafta for Best Scripted Comedy last year – beating Catastrophe, Derry Girls and Fleabag.
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