Review: This Country, Episode 4, BBC Three (And BBC One)

Kerry gets the entrepreneurial bug this week when her screaming mum lobs her Playstation out of the window and she needs money to buy a new one. You can see that this is going to end in tears, however, as soon as she and her cousin Kurtan go to a talk by successful businesswoman Shaz in the local village hall. Kerry comes away thinking she is going to be a Dragon’s Den judge and have her own helipad by selling sludge-coloured wheatgrass drinks around the village.

At least Kerry makes a go of it though, donning a business suit which Kurtan thinks makes her look like Uncle Fester. It might have helped if she did the tie up properly before going door-to-door. It might also help if the product did not make her gag, but then, as she points out like some bumpkin Trump, she doesn’t have to drink it: “Fray Bentos doesn’t eat his own pies”. 

Meanwhile Kurtan doesn’t last long as her top (unpaid) salesman, getting distracted by two Warhammer obsessives – Count Fartula and Weak Nathan – and becoming “king of the nerds”. At least he seems briefly happy, even if he is just behaving like a patently pathetic overgrown kid. He doesn’t take too kindly, however, to being replaced on the sales team by a ten-year-old…

A nice twist might have been if she had bought her helipad, but that simply isn’t going to happen in this wry mockumentary about marginalised Costwolds youth written by its stars, Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper. The only positive outcome is that after falling out Kerry and Kurtan end up as mates again. Now all they have to do is pay off the high interest loan of £200 that Kerry needed to start up her “multi-level management scheme.” Equal parts painful and hilarious to watch. 

Watch all episodes here. Or on BBC1 on Saturdays after Match of the Day.

Read review of Episode 1 here.

Read review of Episode 2 here.

Read review of Episode 3 here.

 

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