Extras: Season 2, Episode 3: "Daniel Radcliffe"

Extras:

Season 2, Episode 3: "Daniel Radcliffe"

Grade: 8.7

Ricky Gervais and Stephan Merchant take this episode as an example of how the media get so massively twist a story and how the public can depend on the media to tell them what to think of a celebrity. Andy is not completely let off the hook though. Since the character is pretty much an asshole, his behavior at the restaurant in the first place was horrid. Yes, he felt badly and yes he did not know that the boy had Down syndrome but he still was an asshole to that mother by telling her to take herself and her kid out of the restaurant. The way we see Andy’s efforts to achieve good PR fail, majorly due to Darren’s horrible attempts to alleviate the situation.
Everything about this episode is spot on. This season of Extras so far is so much better than the first season. We get to see the opening credits to When the Whistle Blows. We get to see how quickly the press can turn on you and how Andy handles situations like this one which is not very well. Andy gets into a fight with Warwick Davis. Most hilariously though, is Daniel Radcliffe in this episode who frankly makes the episode for me as great as the rest of it is. What a sport. He is portrayed as a mama’s boy who likes to think of himself as someone who is very experienced with sex and women. In fact, he has no experience and we see his hilariously pathetic attempts to get with Maggie. The moments with the opened up condom that he carries around ready to use is to die for. Basically everything in this episode was pitch perfect delivering along with the David Bowie episode, the best episode of the series thus far.