Red Dwarf, one of my very fave TV shows. Funnily enough, I always thought this show started in the 90s, so I was pretty pleased to find I was wrong and that it actually began in 1988 and thus I can review it here!

Lister, Rimmer, Cat, Kryten

It is a British comedy, with a basis that goes something like this: Lister, a chicken soup machine repair man, gets accidentally cryo-frozen on the space ship Red Dwarf. Cut to a few million years in the future and Lister wakes up to find he is the only human left in the universe (or is he??). He is joined by a cat-man evolved from Lister’s cat; a computer called Holly; and a hologram of possibly the most lovably-annoying man to ever exist, Rimmer.

Further than this, it is hard to describe what goes on in this show! Using the sci-fi backdrop allows them to go to some pretty weird and fun places. Much of what goes on in the earlier episodes comprises this and the relationship between Lister and Rimmer, which is generally darned hilarious. Later introductions of other characters such as the android Kryten spice up the cast, but even without him they had some pretty awesome comedic chemistry. Lister is the everyman slob, Rimmer is the inconceivably uptight wannabe, Cat is the crazy male fashionista.

Lister and Rimmer

The show ran for a few seasons before going off air, then coming back on air. I haven’t seen the later episodes, but I have heard it lost its mojo along the way. But I will certainly vouch for the earlier episodes, which are totally ACE!