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Brassic series two review – lewd, crude ... and totally brilliant | The Guardian

*** 4 stars 

"it’s really still a showcase for Gilgun’s performance as Vinnie. Being the absent-ish father of Erin’s son Tyler has damaged his relationship with best friend and straight man Dylan, who starts the episode turning his back on the life of crime, but is quickly drawn back into it, because the promise of robbing a circus to fund a strip club promises a touch more excitement than a plumbing qualification. (No offence to plumbers; not everyone would enjoy bartering with lions to make a dishonest living.)

Brassic’s charms are not for everyone. It’s crude and lewd. But the delicate love between Erin, Dylan and Vinnie made for a stealthily sweet backbone in the first series. There isn’t much evidence of that in the opening episode, which leans more towards its zanier side, and less towards its honesty, but there’s plenty of time for that yet."

Brassic: Silly dad jokes with a side of filth — Vinnie and crew are back in town | The Evening Standard 

 **** 4 stars 

 "Vinnie is played by Brassic’s creator Joe Gilgun, who was Woody in This Is England, grew up in Lancashire and, like his character, is bipolar. He has a similar shambolic but potent charm as Frank Gallagher in Shameless (Brassic co-creator Daniel Brocklehurst wrote the Channel 4 drama). There’s also a dash of Johnny “Rooster” Byron  from the play Jerusalem and a Dickensian feel to their plucky resourcefulness and madcap spirit."

"The whole cast is strong — Dominic West is hilarious as Vinnie’s doctor who likes drinking Rioja (pronounced reeoger) and has just discovered emotional support dogs, and the dynamic between Erin (Michelle Keegan) and the clean-cut Dylan (Damien Molony) continues to be an absorbing, sweet sub-plot. "

Not merely funny but somehow also joyous: Sky One’s Brassic reviewed | The Spectator

 "But there’s also the fact that, no matter what they get up to, they’re clearly supposed to be lovable — coupled with the rather more mysterious fact that they are. However dark the storylines theoretically become, the programme presents them with such an infectious swagger, and such a thorough blurring of realism and wild imagination, that the result is not merely funny but somehow joyous."

Brassic review — Cartoonish capers give us a break from reality | The Times 

*** 3 stars

"Brassic keeps buoyant with the brio of a cast that also includes Michelle Keegan and Damien Molony, smart lines and a knack for an off-kilter set piece. A local Mr Big burst into an Elvis song; a straggle-haired John Thomson did some bad magic in the pub as he sold the gang some intel."

Brassic 2 review: Petty thieves always serve up serious laughs | The Mirror

*** 4 Stars