The fact that the name itself sounds like a laddish indie rock outfit from Reading, who wear waistcoats on stage and mourn the death of The Libertines, and model themselves on Oasis makes you instantly dislike the show. However, the worst is yet to come.
The Inbetweeners has the worst soundtrack ever. The Fratellis' entire discography is played throughout, under the hopelessly terrible dialogue between the four unlikeable, repellent leads. Subconsciously, overplayed lad-rock hits enter your mind and by the end of the seemingly endless 23 minutes of cliches, 'you're gay' and 'I want to shag your mum' jokes, you're left feeling like you want to drown yourself in Carling and punch Alex Turner in the face. Teddy Picker, total classic, yeah? Yeah? Yeah!!!
Then, out of the smoking ashes of post-Skins revelry, where the soundtrack was actually pretty good, come the lilting vocals of the genius, the enigma, the talent - Pete Doherty. It seems too predictable for a Libertines' song to be played on a TV show that is so chronically laddy, but apparently XFM DJ Marsha Shandur (omgzz, XFM, love that radio station, Alex Zane was on that, right? He is such an indie heartthrob!!), the music consultant for the show forgot to read the memo that clearly stated stereotypes were trying to be broken, not adhered to. And so Doherty gets another thousand pounds in his pocket, spends half on crack and half on studio time for the next Babyshambles catastrophe, so The Inbetweeners can have another few songs to play under some more homophobic jokes in the next series. The only way this soundtrack could possibly be worse is if they did some kind of Sun o)))/Oasis remix, turned it up to 11 and played it over a drunken orgy, Skins Party-style, and even that might give it some personality. In summary, this is terrible, meaningless music and terrible, meaningless television. The Inbetweeners is surely a sign of the imminent apocalypse - 4 main characters, 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. You heard it here first.
2/20,000
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