The major problem with Fleetwood Mick is that its central premise, Fleetie and Moriarty attempting to make light of news and current affairs, is grossly underdeveloped.
With the support of a fridge door sporting the Hickey Family Ladder and a pot or two, Hickey regales her audience with tales about her efforts to beat her competition to the top of the ladder.
Played for progressively darker
comic effect until the comedy is so black that it’s no longer funny, the guards
are nasty pieces of work, lewd, vindictive and increasingly violent.
Amos delivers, joke after joke, centred on the themes of religion,
hypocrisy and life’s pressures, all while he is essentially relaying
his experiences of growing up in London