TV Review: Sugartown is a lumpy comedy drama which features Sue Johnston dressing up as a sherbet dab and dancing like a loon to Starshipâs We Built This City, and a lot more very bad dancing.
This is just a wild guess but when actress Sue Johnston looks back on a career that has taken in the glory years of Brookside and The Royle Family, dressing up as a sherbet dab and dancing like a loon to Starshipâs We Built This City, will not figure among the highlights.
And that was one of the better bits of Sugartown (BBC1).
A lumpy comedy drama set in an ailing seaside town up north, Sugartown has Mirandaâs Tom Ellis as the bad brother (heâs been down south and is thus rich) returning to steal the local seaside rock factory from the good brother (poor, obviously).
In order to stop this happening, good brotherâs salt-of-the-earth/dippy mates are going to do a lot of very bad dancing.
Because, apparently, âSugartown used to be the centre of danceâ.
And there was me, thinking that was St Petersburg.
