Well, it's Christmas Day-night. Christmas night I guess you'd call it. It was a good day, spent with my family, eating duck and ham and vegetables and pudding and drinking wine. There was ample wine. Michelle visited in the evening and we all exchanged presents. Christmas is nice, isn't it.

The other day I watched all of season three of 'The Mighty Boosh'. I have now watched every season and all the associated special features. It's a curious show. After watching the first season, I declared it to be very overrated. It was original, yes, quirky, colourful, interesting to look at, bizarre, improvised. In short, it had a bunch of great qualities. The thing was, I just didn't find it all that funny. I guess I found it a little badly directed in terms of the comedy, some of the improvised dialogue seemed to go on a bit too long and the beats were in the wrong spots or completely missing. People said to me "you must watch season two though! you'll love it." So you know what I did? Exactly that.

Season two was a lot better, I thought. It definitely benefited from re-locating the show from the zoo to the flat. It seemed to open things up a lot more. 'The Priest and the Beast' was the first episode I watched where I thought "wow, great show". That episode blew me away, it's brilliantly written. Still, I found the season to be a little hit and miss overall. The darker episodes are my favourites in this season by far, particularly the last two "The Legend of Old Gregg" and "The Nightmare of Milky Joe". The Boosh seem to be at their best when they're being as edgy as possible, pushing things in a very dark direction.

So, the third season which I just watched the other day. It's not a great season really, probably about the same as season one. I mean, it's very watchable, interesting television but just not any brilliant episodes like there were in season two. The best for me was "The Strange Tale of the Crack Fox", but chiefly because of the Crack Fox character. It's a really demented episode but it seems to lose some steam in the second half. The interplay between Vince and the Fox is great but unfortunately shortlived.

So, what to make of 'The Mighty Boosh'? The show is consistently quite good, sometimes even brilliant. It's certainly different from anything else out there, which is a good thing. But I don't know, I kinda wish it was consistently brilliant rather than just consistently good. I think when they tie themselves down to a location, such as the zoo or the shop, the episodes tend to suffer. They tend to come across as much more restrained, even sitcom-like. Perhaps it just comes down to personal preference, but the episodes that I love are those where Vince and Howard are on some adventure somewhere without any real explanation for why.