This new observational comedy appeared on HBO last evening. My opinion of it after one episode is guarded. I am usually not one who enjoys anything I consider exploitative and certainly one could consider a show about a dwarf as that. Still the idea came for the show came from it's star Warwick Davis who is himself a little person.
The shows creators are Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant so it's credentials and prospects are strong. The show is a bit of a twisted take on the life of Warwick Davis who stars as himself.
Davis talks to the camera often and his observations are rye and quite funny. In the first episode we see Davis interact with his wife, from whom he is separated.
We learn about his work with George Lucas, playing an Ewok and later appearing in the movie Willow. Warwick himself runs a movie staffing agency for little people. Davis stops by to see Gervais and Merchant to ask about potential work. They mock him and try to get rid of him.
In the first scene there is some gold however. Warwick goes to see his accountant who hilariously tries to tell him he should just pay his back taxes, taxes due to the accountant's mistake. Best of all, on another visit to Gervais and Merchant Warwick witnesses Liam Neeson ( in what will be one of many stars making cameo appearances ) trying to get Gervais to find a role for him. Neeson runs through an idea about a green grocer and then a green grocer with aids and it is make you squirm funny.
The show has promise. Not sure it is a must see and certainly its audience will be limited to a certain kind of humor fan. Still one suspects that each episode will have a scene you will talk about the next day.
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