{"id":46777,"date":"2024-02-28T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1999338"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:23:26","slug":"the-completely-made-up-adventures-of-dick-turpin-review-noel-fielding-shines-in-unashamedly-silly-sitcom","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-completely-made-up-adventures-of-dick-turpin-review-noel-fielding-shines-in-unashamedly-silly-sitcom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin review: Noel Fielding shines in unashamedly silly sitcom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noel Fielding and co are joyously daft in this Apple TV+ comedy. <\/p>

By Jon O’Brien\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 28 February 2024 at 14:00 PM<\/p>

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<\/div> 4.0 out of 5 star rating<\/span> <\/span> <\/div> <\/div>

Now that Noel Fielding is regularly cosying up to Prue Leith and presiding over pomegranate delices on The Great British Bake Off<\/a>, it\u2019s easy to forget that he was considered one of Britain\u2019s most subversive funnymen in the era of indie sleaze.<\/p>\n

But the fact that his first comedic vehicle in a decade reinvents a legendary fearsome highwayman as a mild-mannered, vegan pacifist would suggest he\u2019s now scratching that surrealist itch once more.<\/p>\n

And yet, Apple TV+\u2019s\u00a0The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin<\/a> is a surprisingly straightforward, if still unapologetically silly, sitcom which is unlikely to scare away much of the Bake Off audience.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s even an early nod to the Channel 4 juggernaut when the titular bandit proudly shows off a country village he\u2019s made entirely out of courgettes. The utterly bewildering Noel Fielding\u2019s Luxury Comedy, this is not.<\/p>\n

In a role which neatly brings things full circle \u2013 his first acting gig was as a brothel gent in 18th century romp Plunkett & Macleane \u2013 Fielding plays Turpin as a loveable, exquisitely coiffured fop who\u2019s an eternal disappointment to his butcher father John (Mark Heap).<\/p>\n

But while he doesn\u2019t have a taste for killing defenceless animals (\u201cHow do you even kill a swan? Do you hit it? Do you chop it? Do you hit it with a shoe?\u201d), he does become Hampstead\u2019s Most Wanted after accidentally killing the town\u2019s dominant thief Tom King (played by David Threlfall, who looks almost as dishevelled as Shameless\u2019s Frank Gallagher).<\/p>\n

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