![]() He only started speaking English on his arrival from Cyprus at 14, so we can excuse him calling clients “langlords”, hoping to work “park-time” in a barber’s or pronouncing pretty much everything like Borat having a stroke. Writer and star Jamie Demetriou pointedly gives Stath an excuse for his notoriously poor English, the Stath-isms which acts as the show’s comedy froth. Instead, it gave us the diametric opposite of South Park – the behaviours of the playground transposed into the adult world. Stath misses a million tricks by speeding through the viewing scenes, with their landing toilets, four-foot ceilings and kitchen-diner-bedroom-bogs. If we came to series one expecting a satirical takedown of a laughably overpriced and exploitative rental market that expects you to shell out 400 per cent of your monthly income to live in a ‘well-appointed’ cat litter tray above an all-night abattoir on Tooting’s ‘trendy’ Asbestos Mile, we were disappointed. Rarely, though, has the fine art of arrested development been so liberally, and often brilliantly, deployed as in Stath Lets Flats. ![]() To allow your characters to age, evolve or experience major life changes – beyond the long-teased will-they-won’t-they cop-off at the end of series three – is to risk unbalancing the chemistry or, worse still, allowing them the faculties to consider escaping their intricately constructed comedy bear trap. ![]() He played the role of Walter Mildmay, English Chancellor of the Exchequer.From Maggie Simpson to Father Dougal, arrested development is so core to the art and sustainability of the average sitcom that there’s even one named after it. ![]() Director Josie Rourke dedicated Mary Queen of Scots to Beckett's memory. Death īeckett died at his home in South Norwood, London, on 10 April 2018, aged 35, in what was ruled by the coroner to be suicide by hanging it was noted that, at the time of his death, Beckett had been suffering from depression for almost a year. He also played Michael in the BBC Radio 4 drama Tracks. ![]() He played many theatre roles, including Higgins in Pygmalion in 2017, and several characters, including Fidel Castro, in the 2013 musical hybrid production of the Neon Neon album Praxis Makes Perfect. He was best known for his role in the BBC TV comedy series Twenty Twelve and its follow-up W1A. Peter Alexander Beckett (30 June 1982 – 10 April 2018) was a British actor. ![]()
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