Inbetweeners All 4 🆒

Across four tight, cringe-laden series, Will, Simon, Jay, and Neil navigate sixth form not with the swagger of Skins or the gloss of Gossip Girl , but with the sweaty-palmed desperation of teenage boys who have absolutely no idea what they are doing. Series 1 (2008): The show arrives fully formed. New kid Will (Joe Thomas) is forced to leave private school and join the comprehensive, immediately latching onto Simon (Joe Thomas’ real-life brother-in-law-to-be, Simon Bird), the neurotic "leader," Neil (Blake Harrison), the lovable idiot, and Jay (James Buckley), the pathological liar. The first series is about establishing the rules: every plan will fail, every girl will be repulsed, and the ultimate location of dignity is the boys' toilets. Highlights include the disastrous school fashion show and the first trip to the "caravan club" (which is actually just a dank, rusty shed). It’s raw, quotable, and shockingly accurate.

If you haven’t watched all four series, you are missing one of the sharpest, filthiest, and most affectionate comedies about failure ever written. Just don’t watch it with your parents. They might recognize you. inbetweeners all 4

The only thing stopping a perfect five is the same thing that makes the show great: its narrow scope. It is a perfect, time-capsule portrait of being 16–18. But within that scope, it is flawless. Across four tight, cringe-laden series, Will, Simon, Jay,