Review: Witless, BBC Three

The third series of comedy thriller Witless has just come out on iPlayer in one big five-episode dollop. And if you think Leanne and Rhona are going to be able to go back to their boring, ordinary lives then you clearly haven't been paying attention. These two have about as much chance of avoiding scrapes as Eamonn Holmes has of winning the World Boxing Championships.

It would help if you've seen the previous series as the first episode of series three hits the ground running, with Leanne and Rhona trying to evade Bristol's hardest bullet-headed, gun-toting gangsters once again. Their attempt to frame their nemesis, the scarily bearded and not in a hipster way Willy Whelan (Francis Magee), has backfired, causing them even more grief. And meanwhile Patrick (Samuel Anderson), who has been helping them, is also in hot water, not just with the bad guys with guns, but also with uni where he has failed to get his essay on palliative care in on time.

The action certainly comes thick and fast with Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle barely having a chance to catch their breath before finding themselves in trouble again. There is a whiff of The Wrong Mans about the fast-paced mix of brutal violence and laughs here, albeit on a lower Bristol-based shoestring-Tarantino budget. But writers Lloyd Woolf and Joe Tucker have created something pretty distinctive. And Kerry Howard of course, is as brilliantly watchable here as she is in everything she does.

Watch the whole series of Witless here. Or on BBC One on Friday nights at 11.25pm.

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