EPISODE
SEASON
An Idiot Abroad - Season 1
It is a series of wonderful comedies presented by young people through their travels around the world. The series begins when Carl Billkington admits he sees no fuss about the Seven Wonders of the World, which is strange even though he will not see even one of them. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, his friends, may see it as wrong, so both of them decided to send it around the world to experience the wonders of himself.
September 13, 1968 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
24 November 1974, Bristol, England, UK
25 June 1961, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
3 February 1970, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
March 2, 1962 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA
October 08, 2018
With An Idiot Abroad, they've managed to pull off the impossible: reality television filled with laugh-out-loud moments.
October 08, 2018
An Idiot Abroad is ridiculously funny and even when it's clear that Gervais and Merchant...are having a cruel laugh, it's nearly impossible not to fall apart laughing at poor Pilkington's fate.
October 08, 2018
€œIn an age when reality TV is manipulated and forced and false and phony and so obviously scripted to create a narrative, this is something that is genuinely real and funny and also heartfelt.
October 08, 2018
Pilkington's simple but twisted wit is a lot smarter than you'd think.
October 08, 2018
It was all very amusing and should make a star out of Pilkington.
October 08, 2018
With the additional benefit of some deft editing and a cheeky, Curb Your Enthusiasm-esque score, Pilkington can seem like the British equivalent of a Coen Brothers character, a rube dragged outside his comfort zone, to great comic effect.
October 08, 2018
Whatever his views, however outlandish or unfounded, [Pilkington] has a quiet certainty that almost dares you to keep a straight face. It makes for supremely watchable television.
October 08, 2018
The series is basically grumbling interspersed with picturesque aerial shots; fortunately, the more Pilkington suffers, the more entertaining it gets.
October 22, 2018
You could argue that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have influenced 21st century comedy just as much as Lorne Michaels and the Judd Apatow crew. They gave us The Office and Extras, but they also gave us An Idiot Abroad.
October 08, 2018
An Idiot Abroad has its problems, but so much of it is hilarious and so much of it is surprisingly wide-ranging that it becomes worth checking out all the same.
