GameFace Series 2 Reviews

GAMEFACE SERIES 2 REVIEW – The Top 10 Damien Molony & Joncella Moments!
damienmolony.org | 19 August 2019
“With more layers than a pizza and definitely not a spud, gorgeous and glowy GameFace 2 leaves you knowing you have been watching something beautiful. But don’t let that fool you into thinking it’s all light and fluffy, it’s BRILLIANT comedy, utterly original, cleverly constructed and unexpected in a way that you cannot know what is to come next, or even begin to guess, because you’re too busy laughing, reeling from an event, a twist, or revelation. There really is nothing else like it.”
“Damien’s quieter, more bashful, Jon has an intriguing intensity and Damien plays him with magnetic authenticity and such subtlety. His feelings for Marcella are pushed to their limits from the outset, and still not overtly stated, more conveyed through his expressions and actions, and in this series, always given away by his eyes.”

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The Observer – Euan Ferguson | 19 July 2019
“A handsome round of applause for the welcome return of GameFace, Roisin Conaty’s filthy and intemperate Fleabag for the working class.”
“Glisteningly written and fun throughout…”

GameFace: Roisin Conaty serves up sexual frankness and women-behaving-badly comedy
Irish Times – Peter Crawley | 18 July 2019
“GameFace adds a little more edge to fairly conventional sitcom plotting, and though Conaty is pleasingly tart-tongued, she’s also inclined to prove sympathetic, sweetly mortified during her date with handsome non-entity Jon.”

**** GameFace, series 2 episode 1 review: who cares if it’s not as cool as Fleabag, Roisin Conaty’s sitcom is full of laughs
The Telegraph – Michael Hogan | 17 July 2019
“GameFace remains big-hearted, hopelessly romantic and hugely likeable. It might not be as fashionable as a Fleabag-style sadcom but it delivered laughs and left a warm glow. You know, like comedy used to.”

**** GameFace, Channel 4, series 2, episode 1, review: Roisin Conaty makes smart comedy look easy
iNews – Sarah Hughes | 17 July 2019
“This series is both very funny and properly smart. The characters are well drawn and the scenarios feel grounded in a very specific type of London reality – of a woman who grew up in the city and has the accent to prove it. It’s the kind of comedy – both very broad and carefully specific – that’s incredibly difficult to get right. Conaty makes it look easy.”

****GameFace review – irresistible comedy that’s all heart and silliness
The Guardian – Rebecca Nicholson | 17 July 2019
“This is proper, silly comedy that packs in the punchlines and dances around absurd setups, leaving a sense of joy in its wake.”

GameFace Series 2 Episode 1 Review
Chortle | 17 July 2019
“The first half of the opening episode is jaunty, with flashbacks to embarrassing memories ramping up the gag rate, while the second puts more stock on the emotional aspects as Marcella and Jon test out their relationship. Conaty holds this mood longer than you might expect from a comedy – and the atmosphere is eventually punctured by drama, not a joke. It shows there’s some substance beyond the punchlines. But definitely it’s the witty, silly, but-still-grounded-in-reality humour that makes GameFace a winner.”