So they've got this café, yeah, where it's all robots inside. What do you reckon the coolest thing was that you saw in Japan? That's how many people know who we are.ĭJ Steves: Basically, out there, we were on TV, on a gameshow. You'd shout it in the street, and people would literally turn around and look at us. We'd go around for hours, going, "JAPAN!"ĭJ Steves: And shouting, "KURUPT FM!" out the window, to see if people knew who we were. MC Grindah: JAPAN! I sometimes like to shout that, because I did that out there. The big thing on the horizon is obviously the film, People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan. Digital Spy spoke to MC Grindah and DJ Steves – who stayed in character the whole time, of course – about keeping it Kurupt. Reality is even stranger than fiction it seems, as the group have ironically garnered the kind of massive success and critical acclaim that was constantly out of Kurupt FM's reach in the show's storyline. The final series saw MC Grindah (Allan Mustafa), DJ Beats (Hugo Chegwin), Steves (Steve Stamp), and their equally awful manager Chabuddy G (Asim Chaudhry) part ways as they closed the radio station for good.īut bizarrely in real life, the group have gone from strength to strength, with smash-hit tours as a hybrid DJ/comedy act at festivals, as well as an award-winning podcast, multiple albums, and now their very own movie – People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan. These characters will find a way into your heart.People Just Do Nothing, BBC Three's mockumentary about the lives of hapless 30-year-old UK garage DJs running a pirate radio station – Kurupt FM – in Brentford, was an incredible spiritual successor to The Office. Despite these misgivings, I believe the show deserves a 9/10 overall as it is and will remain a classic based on the strength of those first 3 series - there's nothing else like them. Series 5 was also a missed opportunity for social commentary on gentrification and social engineering, a main driver of the plot but one that is barely explored. So it was sad to see a show I was incredibly passionate about jump the shark and peter out, especially when it could have chosen a brave and powerful ending given the way the cards were being stacked in series 3. Worse, the characters stopped growing and in some cases their development actually went backwards, reducing them to unlikable caricatures (where in earlier series, despite if not because of their flaws, they were all relatable and sympathetic). This final 11-episode run (from episode 4.2 to 5.6) isn't entirely bad - episodes 5.1-5.3 are a brief and welcome return to form - but by this point it was clear the show had lost steam and direction and the actors had begun to tire of the characters. There's a sharp change in the tone of the show and the quality of the scripts just over halfway through the run, for reasons I'm unsure of. My average ranking for episodes 1.1 to 4.1 is a stellar 8.8/10. By the end of series 3 the show is firing on every cylinder - it's great to see a sitcom that's so ambitious and such a labour of love, and that takes its characters and their lives so seriously. Series 2 and 3 are just superb - series 2 is probably the funniest and is when the show really comes into its own, but series 3 is a tour de force with fantastic arcs and character work. Characters grow in meaningful ways, the show subverts expectations in intelligent ways, jokes are never overlaboured, scripts are densely written, the cast's chemistry is natural, the improvisation is fantastic, and there's a subtle but powerful political undercurrent. Episodes 1.1 to 4.1 are a solid run of quality, as the show grows in confidence, and the writing and performances become more and more sophisticated - the tapestry gradually expands and each episode builds on the last, making the series feel like an incredibly real world. It's hard for me to review People Just Do Nothing, as in many ways it is two shows.
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