Review of Gap Year

Gap Year is a comedy-drama series that follows the adventure of a disparate group of strangers collide while back-packing in Asia. What begins as a disorientating and potentially disastrous holidays. The first episode of this short episode talks about Dylan and Sean. Sean thinks that they are on holidays to escape from their common lifes to disconnect about university but this isn't the reason. They were there because of Dylan's ex-girlfriend. Dylan and her finished their relation but Dylan want restart it again with her and he goes to Asia to get back with her. Then they meet Ashley, Greg and May. Dylan leaves his money in the bathroom where he meets these 3 characters. Who pick up all the money are the 3 new characters and they spend a big part because they don’t know where it comes from. A few hours later everyone meet again and Greg returns the money to Dylan. Since that moment, they go together and assist to a festival at the Great Wall of China.

·                     The characters are great, felt so relatable and the story is different each episode, hope there is a season two. It kept me laughing through all 8 episodes , Instead of getting stale like a lot of different television series I feel as though it improved as the series progressed and after watching I always felt happier the amazing locations and stories along with it paired together to make an amazing new series.

·                     Based on this first episode, Gap Year’s emphasis is probably more on the drama than the comedy. The show is very much plot driven, and the viewer wants to find out what happens next as the action unfolds. Based clearly learned a thing or two from writing on The Wrong Mans. And the first episode ends one a great cliffhanger – even if it is immediately ruined by E4 showing scenes from the second episode indicating the outcome. 

Overall, there’s an appealing ironic undertone, and a knowingness to the fact the characters often aren’t fully immersed in the world they came looking for. After going to great pains to watch a sunrise over the Great Wall Of China, comes the question: ‘How much longer are we going to spend looking at it?

·                     In Gap Year, absolutely everyone appears lost as this bunch of westerners try to stay safe and remain sane in the deeply unfamiliar environs of modern China. Friendships are strained, loves are challenged, parties need to be attended, and selves await to be discovered.

In my opinion it’s a great serie because when I saw the first time at school with my English class it captures my attention and I want follow at home. I haven’t follow it although because I haven’t got so much time to spend watching it.

It shows us the possible gap year we can have, it’s so difficult to pass us but I’m sure that some people have got a gap year as them. So it shows so interesting histories and anecdotes about a teenagers’ group.