This prompts his friends Tess (Jessica Regan) and Joel (You're the Worst's Chris Geere) to bundle their pal off to a country house for a crash course of involuntary chemotherapy. Noble intentions dont make them any easier to root for. Joel is a nostalgia-obsessed man-child recently divorced by his megabucks wife, Tess a frustrated IT drone dabbling in robot porn.

Riley's real-life fiance Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex) also pops up as an alcoholic oncologist who furnishes the conspirators with purloined medicines. Caplan is great at playing drop-dead cynics. However, shes jarring here, her hard-nosed performance at odds with a comedy which, serious subject matter notwithstanding, is largely concerned with gross-out gags and puerile back-and-forths.

Episode one, in particular, zipped along but how much of Bains freewheeling nihilism can we stomach before turning green at the gills and requiring a lie-down?

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