EPISODE
Sticks and Stones - Season 1
After getting badly involved, middle manager Thomas Penso decided to have a different experience by restoring the customer again. Thomas feels that he has been undermined by his team before doing so. Someone called Bartlett began creating the same intensity of persecution from bullying in the workplace where he was able to do so by cheating at home.
27 April 1959, London, England, UK
24 February 1966, London, England, UK
1 September 1971, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
24 November 1983, London, England, UK
December 23, 2019
A standard melodrama that stretched credulity and stretched credulity and stretched credulity... until it snapped.
December 17, 2019
On the face of it Sticks and Stones tackles an unusual issue, the bullying of a team leader by his underlings, but there might be more to it than that.
December 17, 2019
Sticks and Stones rumbles along.
December 18, 2019
It's not quite clear how entertaining this is all meant to be. It will only really be dramatically satisfying if, unlike in Bull, Thomas fights back.
December 23, 2019
Chiefly, this failed to hit home because all the characters were so damned unlikable. It was like the worst ever extended episode of The Apprentice, if you can shudder to imagine that.
December 17, 2019
The premise of Sticks and Stones - bullying in the workplace - was top-notch. But in the execution it was a strange combination of being painful to watch yet too slickly over-stylised to be credible.
December 17, 2019
Sticks And Stones is more dribs and drabs.
December 19, 2019
The trouble is that it really is about middle management and that's dull, unless it's Ricky Gervais. Imagine a dramatised version of The Apprentice, and you'll have a good idea of whether or not it's for you.
