I won't bother repeating all the good things everyone else has already said about the first three seasons. If this were just a review of those seasons then I would easily give it a 7 or 8.
However, Season 4 is totally different with a totally different cast. Season 4 bears absolutely no resemblance to the previous seasons and is, essentially, an entirely different show but just trying to piggy-back on the IP.
The new characters are.reduced to a politically correct tickbox exercise of ensuring a correct diversity mix that one would expect in an inner London comprehensive.
The first three seasons were written by Jack Whitehall (I believe) but this season is written by an assortment of different young writers with little experience (at least, according to the review in The Guardian) and I think this difference really does show.
However, Season 4 is totally different with a totally different cast. Season 4 bears absolutely no resemblance to the previous seasons and is, essentially, an entirely different show but just trying to piggy-back on the IP.
The new characters are.reduced to a politically correct tickbox exercise of ensuring a correct diversity mix that one would expect in an inner London comprehensive.
The first three seasons were written by Jack Whitehall (I believe) but this season is written by an assortment of different young writers with little experience (at least, according to the review in The Guardian) and I think this difference really does show.