inmanjaa
While some of Monty Python has understandably aged poorly in the past few decades. I found Fawlty Towers as fresh and current as when it was new. With it only being 12 episodes in length, the viewer is always torn between wanting more and being very content with how good the past 6 hours has been.Time to ring the bell for a stay at Fawlty Towers! 11/10 stars
Alanjackd
As much as I wanted to..I never ever got this.Tried and tried on many occasions but for me it's just not funny.I think the reason people think it's funny is A) It's got John Cleese in it and B) They cleverly stopped after 12 episodes ( thank God) to make it a "classic"!never laughed once at this...and I'm a very versed comedy watcher ..10 well better comedy shows are..Steptoe & Son.Rab C Nesbitt..Dear John..George And Mildred.Nearest And Dearest..Man About the House..Blackadder..OFAH..Open All Hours..It ain't Half Hot Mum..Hi De Hi..You Rang M'Lord..I think that's more than 10 but you get the drift.If this was made into another 12 episodes it would have become mundane and never down as a classic.Cleese was the least funny in Python ..But Python was a rip -off of spike Milligans Q series.Unfunny and childish this...wouldn't bother to be honest!!
evimchine
It is no surprise, that Fawlty Towers resonated with many, considering how popular "cringe comedy" is.This only is the case though, if your mirror neurons, responsible for empathy, are close to /dead/. Otherwise it will be a hellish nightmare that is literally physically painful to watch.On top of that, the whole hotel depicted in it, is a complete chaos of an utterly unbearable level.Which might excite the dull and tedious and stuffy and boring and desperately /desperately/ dull among the population.But if your life already had quite enough "excitement" (read: daymares), then I must strongly suggest you stay far *far* away from this programme.
guywdavies
Seriously, as dumb an American as I am, all it simply takes is one to take a look at "Brit. Humour, then watch Fawlty Towers; it becomes easier to separate the former: ("Brit Humor") from Fawlty Towers; (the latter) one begins to separate in their mind; British Humor vs. pure humor. Pure unadulterated humor. One that runs amok. Runs rampant, twisting and turning. Branching. Swirling like tendrils of ivy on a drab, lime stained brick wall. This is Fawlty Towers to me. (Duh). Basil Fawlty: (a main character) owns a hotel. [(Much like a particular twisted individual in real life, who owned a "hotel" (murder, albeit) in Chicago, Illinois, (...on that turd mound across the pond)...(for some) back in the late 1800s'].Basil lures his victims in to his web of torture, by posing as an eccentric innkeeper by the shore. As smart as some in the cast think they are, how little do they know just how far Basil will go to brutally and unmercifully bully, insult, defame, humiliate, taunt, and torture all he allows in his web, and just how stupid they really are for not seeing it. Except one.That tart of a maid under Basil's employ. Yes! She also takes great pleasure by allowing and enabling the borderline dissociative, sociopath, ASD riddled, word salad spewing, worm brained, multiple personality disorder afflicted, severely emasculated, sexually repressed and frustrated Basil to take his great pleasure torturing the guests, (damn the collateral damage)in some sort of kinky humor fetish thing the both are afflicted with; partaking, if you will, in some S&M 'humoric intercourse' with each other, taking it all the way to the brink of an endorphins soaked ecstasy, (because it is all about sex and/or the lack thereof, mind you).Yes. Simply put: All are victims of some nut job who gets his rocks off by messing around with his staff, family and guests to the point of rage quitting, or becoming a captive with Stockholm Syndrome I guess,as they become just as mad as a hatter as himself.Yes. You will laugh. Laugh yourself retarded.Something you want to watch...?
