Customer Reviews
Misfiring on All Cylinders - By: P. Baldowski, 10 Nov 2008 
Alas, while the first series delivered a standard of comedy that endured throughout every episode, the second series - delivered as a lampoon of "Tomorrow's World" fails on far too many counts. When the series starts recycling jokes from the first series & ruins them (i.e. "Thanks ants... Thants" gets repeated each & every episode until you're fed up with it). Somehow the silliness & tomfoolery fail to raise a smile, & where the first series fooled the viewer into thinking this might all be for real, here no such doubts exist. So, stick with the first series & enjoy it. Somehow, watching the second series comes off less funny than your second read through of the Teletext page extras on the first series DVD.
a change of idea from series one......... - By: stevek35, 20 Jun 2008 
Series two of look around you wentin a different direction from series onein that they scrapped the idea of 10 minute science for schools clips & decided to make half hour science & technology programs similar to those seenin the early 80s.....eg ...tomorrow's world.Although not as funny as series one it still has a few good laughs here & there.The dvd has a hidden segment or easter egg as well on the additional items page check out the test card & play it through past the credits & the segment will begin playing.Well worth buying if you are into british comedy & sick of the stodgey american sitcoms playing on tv nowadays.
A let down . - By: Egbert Souse, 04 Jan 2008 After buying the excellent Series one of Look Around You , I purchased Series two , expecting the same quota of laughs . I found this a disappointment . It does not get anywhere close to the first series . Some of the stuff is simply not funny , & it had me pressing the forward button on more than one occasion .
Hello - By: Matt, 10 Mar 2007 
Unfortunately I suffer from Cobbles so I find typing difficult, but let me assure you this is a most excellent program.
Goodbye.
Very Funny - By: A. Griffiths, 13 Nov 2006 I could end this review now by simply saying "If you like laughing, buy this DVD". But I need to say a bit more than that, because I think this show has been passed over by too many people, & it's ended up underrated &in the same "cult enthusiasts only" realm as Garth Marenghi's Dark Place.
Now that's a fantastic show too, & the two programmes have a lotin common. Not least of whichin that they were shown without any major publicity & to limited audiences only. The other similarity is that they are both spoof shows. "Look Around You" is a spoof of Tomorrow's World, setin the 1970's, & it presents a kind of bizarre parallel universein which the presenters look forward to inventions & new technology that they predict will change the way we livein the future.
It's hard to explain what is so funny about the showin writing, but on watching, I found it to be hilarious almost all the way through. Firstly, you can lose yourselfin the show's supposedly "current" world where every high street has a much loved "casserole" chain restaurant, & people get robot John McEnroes for Christmas. Then you add to this the inventions featured on the show that the presenters predict will be changing all our lives for the better, such as the vegetable orchestra & the Memory Helmet. Throughout the show, further laughs come thick & fast from various interludes, like information on what programmes are coming up next, or the hilarious "Data Bank" that offers totally barking mini quiz questions.
The programme could have easily failed, however, without the talents of the performers who front the main show. The two original creators of the first series now appear on screen along with two new female presenters, & there are numerous cameosin each show, all of which are uniformly deadpan & convincing, the combined effect of which (with the four main presenters) is pure gold. Throughout the six episodes there isn't a single moment where any of the cast let the mask drop even for a second. Robert Popper & Peter Serafinowicz seem born to play the parts of the two male presenters & I challenge you to disbelieve the sincerity of Olivia Coleman (from The Office & numerous other mock-real life comedies) as she presents the moving & tragic story of "Cobbles", the disease which turns the sufferer into a pile of stones. Fourth team member Josie D'Arby does equally well, with an especially good linein fawning enthusiasm, be it over some truly dire computer games ("Diarrhea Dan") orin trying out a new sport called "Gonnis" (don't ask).
This show is so full of good ideas, i found it hard to understand why some reviewers have said the idea was being stretched too thinly. Each half hour show seemed to fly by for me, & I was laughing all the way. This second series is probably far more accesible to the casual TV viewer than the original show, which lampooned Programmes for Schools with a bit of Open University thrown in. I can't imagine there ever being a third series of this, although if there is, I'll be ready & waiting. But my advice is to buy both DVDs & treasure them.
