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Derek
Series 1
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Derek is a loyal nursing home care assistant who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents.
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6 Episodes
Episode #1.1
E1
Episode #1.1
Episode 1
Episode #1.2
E2
Episode #1.2
Episode 2
Episode #1.3
E3
Episode #1.3
Episode 3
Episode #1.4
E4
Episode #1.4
Episode 4
Episode #1.5
E5
Episode #1.5
Episode 5
Episode #1.6
E6
Episode #1.6
Episode 6
Cast of Series 1
Ricky Gervais
Derek
Kerry Godliman
Hannah
David Earl
Kev
Karl Pilkington
Dougie
Barry Martin
Joe
Tim Barlow
Jack
Arthur Nightingale
Arthur
Ninette Finch
Annie
Margaret Towner
Edna
Sheila Collings
Sheila
Blanche Williams
Precious
Series 1 Reviews
indieWire
Alison Willmore
Gervais is perfectly earnest in what he's set out to do with "Derek," and his heart is in the right place, but in trying to do right by these characters he ends up in danger of condescending to both them and the audience.
Rolling Stone
Scott Neumyer
Although Derek is at times a lighthearted romp, what sets the series apart are the family dynamics of the core characters and the emotional weight of their dedication to Broad Hill.
Salon.com
Neil Drumming
Most discerning television viewers look for an arc these days - even in the most traditional sitcoms. And there's the matter of all of Derek's unrelenting melancholic sweetness.
AV Club
Phil Dyess-Nugent
Derek is pretty sad from top to bottom, but not for the reasons its creator intended.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Gervais's "empathy," for which he's earned considerable kudos, is beginning to look a lot like hatred, condescension, and judgment, the very qualities he pretends to satirize through Derek's various one-note villains.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
A strong supporting cast does what it can, but after a few episodes, Derek becomes less absorbing; it's more of a character sketch than a fully realized story.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Matt Zoller Seitz
Derek is engaging and sometimes very funny. Parts of it are ostentatiously sentimental, verging on gooey. That last aspect is the most intriguing.
Media Life
Tom Conroy
Some schools of criticism hold that an author's intentions are as unimportant as his biography. In this case, smart viewers will just let themselves enjoy the lumps in their throats and the tears in their eyes.
Los Angeles Times
Mary McNamara
When Gervais isn't consumed with looking goofy, when he is avoiding the camera's eye as he speaks of love and loss and his own understanding of the universe, Derek is a thing of quiet beauty. It's mournful, wise and serene.
The Hollywood Reporter
Tim Goodman
While Derek will likely be seen as Gervais' most ambitious leap, I think he stuck the landing better in Extras, which was a better execution of his talents and ultimately a more accomplished work.
New York Times
Mike Hale
Why Mr. Gervais, so refreshingly nasty in the original Office, felt the need to make this potty-mouthed Hallmark card of a show is anyone's guess.
Slate
Willa Paskin
Derek... swiftly tracks a course from sweet to cloying to sugar coma.
Newsday
Diane Werts
With its own take on awkward pauses, misapprehensions and failed humor, Derek is actually just Gervais' latest angle on square pegs in a round-hole world.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
Believe it or not, Derek is a comedy of sorts, but the kind of comedy TV doesn't do very often: the comedy of pathos.
Entertainment Weekly
Jeff Jensen
You can pick-pick-pick at it - too many metaphors, easy foils, and musical montages - but the whole is greater than the parts, and builds to a reflective, stirring conclusion that is mostly earned.
Variety
Brian Lowry
Although it takes awhile to grow accustomed to Gervais' character - a seemingly autistic man working in a struggling convalescent home - the show is filled with a beguiling sense of melancholy.
Esquire Magazine
Stephen Marche
It is unfortunately very dull indeed to watch all this niceness.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Austin O'Connor
an odd, sometimes beautiful little show with a sincere affection for its simple-minded main character and a genuine appreciation for older people
Common Sense Media
Joyce Slaton
Ricky Gervais redeems himself as a lovable simpleton.
Paste Magazine
Bonnie Stiernberg
Maybe this will be the show that'll convince more viewers of what we've known to be true for years: this sharp-tongued comedian is actually a big softie.
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