![]() ![]() “This is one-note comedy - hilarious if you enjoy the sight of implausibly stupid people embarrassing themselves endlessly. Its characters may be idiots (every single one of them, no exceptions), but they’re well-meaning, expertly performed and treated with warmth by Demetriou’s script – even when speaking absolute rubbish.” “It’s silly, ludicrous and nonsensical – but a preference for word play and slapstick doesn’t mean the show lacks heart. Jamie Demetrious BAFTA-winning comedy returns for a third series. Not a thinly fictionalised semi-autobiographical warts-and-all think-piece. BAFTA Award-winning comedy with Jamie Demetriou as incompetent Greek-Cypriot letting agent Stath. Not a first-person confessional diatribe. “Stath Lets Flats trounces the competition by the sheer fact that it has the guts to be a comedy. Whether it’s because his English is sketchy or simply because he is just dim, Stath - the delightfully upbeat Greek-London letting agent played by Jamie Demetriou - still can’t finish a sentence without mangling words at such a pace that you may need to rewind to catch what he’s burbling about.” “It elevates half-wittedness to something approaching an art form.
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