By the time it gets anywhere resembling “good”-the second season’s fifth episode, and 11th overall, “Constable Polly”-it’s unclear whether it’s worth it to soldier on to the “end.” (If we limit ourselves to dark comedies starring Harry Potter alumni, the Daniel Radcliffe-led A Young Doctor’s Notebook clocks in at a better use of your time.) Plus, the late uptick in quality relies on the narrative work of the mediocre episodes that preceded it, as it initially follows everything that’s occurred in the season so far from a non-Daniel, non-Glennis perspective.Ĭreated and written by Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz (with Matt Lipsey as director), Sick Note has a singular narrative and aesthetic vision, and it never once veers from that, no matter what. Unfortunately, Sick Note is wildly uneven, and not all that funny, which is especially disappointing given the talent both in front of and behind the camera. What follows is a comedy of errors surrounding that central lie and the tangled web it weaves-a web which also leads to the accidental almost-death, and then the intentional actual-death, of Daniel’s best friend, Ash (Tolu Ogunmefun), who it turns out was having an affair with Becca… which, in turn, leads to Officer Chris Hayward (Daniel Rigby) investigating the whole situation. When it turns out that he was misdiagnosed and will go on to live a long life, Daniel decides he can’t go back to his life before people thought he had cancer, and Glennis decides he can’t go back to being known as an incompetent doctor (by his colleagues) and incompetent man (by his wife Annette, played by Belinda Stewart-Wilson). And, funnily enough, everything about his life improves everyone around him-from his sadistic boss, Kenny West (Don Johnson), to his cold girlfriend, Becca (Pippa Bennett-Warner), who have both fired and dumped him (for good reason) early on-start to treat him much better. Iain Glennis (Nick Frost) diagnoses him with cancer. Sick Note is a dark comedy with a pretty solid premise: Perennial slacker Daniel (Rupert Grint) has a dead-end job and relationship, and then, on top of that, Dr.
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