London TV Award nomination Fresh Meat: '.. captures the spirit of university life, with brilliant writing and knowing performances blending together perfectly.'

The Telegraph: “Over eight episodes Fresh Meat has proved itself a worthy successor to The Inbetweeners, and the best programme about students since the Young Ones (not a great deal of competition, sure). Partly this has been down to the authenticity of the scripts. The team assembled by creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong includes several writers in their early twenties, and it shows.”

In Fresh Meat, the jokes come thick and fast, with clever lines and knowing characterisation. However, underlying it all is an incredible melancholy, as each student struggles with their identity, and a not wholly unjustified feeling of inadequacy and loneliness. There’s also an overwhelming sense of apathy from the characters, which accurately portrays that sense of self-involvement young people feel. Most British students are barely into their twenties when they start University, and are therefore often obsessed with themselves and their own little problems, while those who aren’t so egotistical are either regarded as arrogant or simply weird. Fresh Meat really does capture the spirit of university life, with brilliant writing and knowing performances blending together perfectly.