Atkinson excels in comedy

ATYPICAL: PERFECT REMEDY FOR CHRISTMAS SCHLOCK

- Hein Kaiser

There is nothing that comes close to British slapstick and situational comedy, and nobody does it better than Rowan Atkinson.

Netflix's Man vs Baby will have you in stitches from the get-go. It's funny, fuzzy and the perfect limited series to escape from festive calendar malaise.

Man vs Baby is a follow up to the incredible 2023 Atkinson and Netflix pairing Man vs Bee. Trevor Bingley, his character, is older, wiser and still ridiculously optimistic about the idea that this time things might just work out in life. But fate has a funny way of cream-pieing Bingley in the face whenever the sun peeks from behind his somewhat overcast days.

Bingley, now divorced, is a school caretaker scraping by and looking forward to a quiet Christmas with his ex-wife and daughter. But, alas, at the last minute the former Mrs Bingley calls and cancels, because she's going to Barbados with her new Mediterranean lover instead.

It's a double whammy, because the school also had to let him go. There seems to be no joy ahead for his festive season. Then, two events occur that changes his season.