Mum's Monday: The Goes Wrong Show - The Lodge

The introduction to this show is a really clever “Play on words”. As the program starts the estate agent is very realistic; being well scripted. The first thing to go wrong is when the baby balloon pops, the script goes on.

The kitchen doorknob comes off, again the script must carry on as normal. This is well acted despite clearly having gone wrong.

Now the doll hasn’t disappeared so we see Set-Staff we are not meant to see; cues being missed would be classed as something going wrong.

Now we see a cast member fall through a door off the edge of the set when a door is opened. This part to me is not a definition of “Something” going wrong. This seems to have been done too deliberately. I do believe they could have come up with some other idea in line with something malfunctioning rather than what looks like a forced scene.

The program quickly gets back on track when the stair lift malfunctions, and this happens more than once, it goes wrong just enough, to not go over the top, but to make the most of having it on set.

The cast member attempting to leave the set and laughing is a bit over the top, although what has gone wrong is the stage direction to leave the stage in the script wasn’t carried out as it would normally do in any other show that does go right. For the sake of the title “Goes wrong show” what happened should have occurred, it just too much and not all that funny to me.

The script is written to explain every little detail and the electrics are malfunctioning. I am not sure about the scene that was done off the stage in what looks like a broom cupboard, is a bit strange and I would say unnecessary.

Something else that goes wrong is when the window is broken, again the script carries on with the storm coming/has arrived with the storm water.

Another few things to go wrong is when the painting falls off the wall and clothing caught so the balloon is not where it is supposed to be.

I can see the reason for “The Bat” it is and was amusing to watch but also a bit of a clever cliché.

The balloon joke carries on. it is in the same concept of having the stair lift but can be used more often and not being done too much but giving the program more depth.

The special effects are very well done whether they go right or go wrong. You can see that they have been well thought out to go the way the program calls for.

The broken gun comes under “Goes wrong” and is done really well, the program is back on track as to the title.

Now we see doors that are not locked, and it is still not possible to open the kitchen door, the script however, must go on as written. It is clever of the actors to act out the scenes.

Again, the special effects with the two wives is so well done that it almost goes right, until it looks like they realise it is going right and it quickly changes to go wrong. I know it must have been scripted that way, but this is all again well-acted out.  

When the two husbands die, they do go a bit over the top and this is acknowledged between the pair of them. It is amusing to watch, it is like a competition, of who can die by making the most fuss.

Now the door is locked, yet the script has to go on but with a little adlib and delay so is she ‘Safe?’ the script must go on as scripted.

Some things do go wrong, some look like they are done deliberate. If they wanted to do a “Goes wrong show” it seems not right to make some of it look deliberate, although it is a good concept to the story.