One pet peeve of mine is needing to have a complex and nuanced opinion about something, so I am particularly annoyed at Channel 4 this week, who made me do just that. Nobody wants me to do this, Channel 4! Nobody wants me to explore the liminal space between “good” and “bad”. And yet, with A Very British Job Agency, I am going to have to! You’re going to ruin a lot of people’s Saturdays with this!
Anyway, A Very British Job Agency (Monday 25 April, 11.05pm, Channel 4). You get it: a three-parter about a British job agency, with larger-than-life characters doing a very normal job in a slightly too enthusiastic way. The running theme of AVBJA is that the employment landscape is in tatters post-Covid and recruitment agencies – labelled the “fourth emergency service” by the narration, a label I can only assume was entirely self-applied – are the only ones brave and talented enough to solve it. If, like me, you started your career by trying to get employment agencies to help you, you will already be laughing.
