He is the classic straight man, offering evaluations on the Twilight-zone-esque world he’s found himself in and voicing the internal monologue of the viewer.
Hence the reprisal of Dean (Kiell Smith-Bynoe), a personal favourite character of mine.
Of course, a comedy centred around people on a bizarre wavelength can only work if there is someone there to balance the absurdity. And where in other shows, these mediocre symbols of affection would fall flat, in the world of Stath Lets Flats, they are received with enthusiasm and warmth. For Vasos, (Christos Stergioglou) a small cake, five pounds and ‘wires for music’ constitute a grand birthday celebration. For Al (Al Roberts) two chocolate bars (totalling £1.30) becomes a grand romantic gesture. For Stath (Jamie Demetriou) an egg is a powerful metaphor for the love he feels for his daughter Dina (Hari Cooke-Singh). They’re all so different, but there is a common thread that binds them – their ability to extract a mundanity from life and magnify it into something life-affirming and wonderful. The irresistible charm of Stath Lets Flats comes largely from its characters. The irresistible charm of Stath Lets Flats comes largely from its characters Its third series (available on All4 and showing weekly on Channel 4, Tuesday at 10:15 pm) continues the show’s rich tradition of lovable characters, linguistic playfulness and heart-warming relationships. It manages to inject sensationalism into the most mundane of concepts, resulting in the world that ours could have been, were the creator a little more self-indulgent.
Jamie Demetriou’s brainchild (co-written with Brian Popper) is a heartfelt, absurd, hilarious love letter to normal life. In fact, Stath Lets Flats is a uniqueness convention, in which a million subverted jokes, idiosyncratic characters and entirely novel sentence constructions meet to bounce ideas off each other. There is something unique about Stath Lets Flats.
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