Published by Mason Oldridge, 26 September 2022
CONTAINS SPOILERS!
Vinnie and the gang are back, getting up to no good once again in the fourth season of Sky’s hit comedy.
The series opens with Vinnie making a cross-country journey to Wales to find Erin and Tyler after their escape in the Season 3 finale. Following the reunion, this season focuses primarily on Vinnie’s forced involvement with the criminal MacDonagh brothers after getting previous villain McCann arrested last season.
While the storylines remain the same, the comedy is lacking this time and therefore highlights the unnecessarily excessive strong language, leaving Tommo’s quick wit to provide the main source of comic relief.
Where the series had always demonstrated the ability to carefully blend hilarious situations with the emotional aspects of Vinnie’s bipolar, these scenes feel more forced and abruptly inserted this season, leaving viewers feeling detached from rather than sympathetic towards the protagonist.
Despite these shortcomings, the season matches its predecessors in terms of drama and suspense as the final scenes are paired efficiently with a soundtrack that leaves viewers on the edge of their seats with a feeling of impending doom, as the characters each nervously return home before Dylan is kidnapped.
6/10