"Outrageous" and "witty" sitcom with Andrew Scott and Blake Harrison is streaming now on Channel 4

A sitcom hailed as "funny and outrageous" is streaming now for free on Channel 4. Starring Andrew Scott and Blake Harrison, It Gets Worse follows three best friends – Ethan (Leo Reich), Abi (Emily Fairn), and Sam (Olive Gray) – who, after moving together from university, find their lives are going nowhere.

When their landlord decides to sell up, their sudden eviction forces them to scatter across the city.

The cast also features Gary Beadle, Simon Haines, Lena Dunham, Sean Delaney, India Mullen, Safia Oakley-Green, and Amelia Dimoldenberg.

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After premiering at this year's BFI London Film Festival, It Gets Worse has finally arrived on Channel 4 for you to watch all six episodes right now.

The comedy drama already has rave reviews from critics, described as "Gen Z's answer to Fresh Meat".

In their review, Radio Times said the show was "funny, outrageous and boasts some stellar guest stars".

They continued: "The six-episode series has a touch of Channel 4’s trendy London sitcom Big Mood about it, coupled with a dash of Lena Dunham’s Girls (tellingly, Dunham cameos in the show, too). But from the start, it’s also very much its own thing."

Vogue wrote: "Leo Reich’s new comedy series, produced by A24 for Channel 4, could not have come at a better time. Is it perfect? No. Does it recall some of the best millennial sitcoms of yore? Yes, genuinely."

They added: "Alongside other recent shows like Adults and Overcompensating, it seems we may be entering a new Golden Age (or, at least, a slightly shinier Age) of sitcoms – ones that take their cues from the millennial comedies that came before them, but with an updated Gen Z lens."

Financial Times described It Gets Worse as "witty", while the New Statesman thought it "couldn't be better".

It Gets Worse is streaming now on Channel 4.

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