An Underrated Sitcom That’s a Fire Hose of Funny

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Rosie Hughes, a producer who works on the Radio Atlantic podcast.Rosie can be found rewatching Search Party, which introduced her to the genius of John Early; replaying the funniest scenes from Stath Lets Flats; or starting a new round of online solitaire to avoid scrolling on her phone.— Stephanie Bai, senior associate editorThe last thing that made me snort with laughter: There was something seriously wrong with Jamie Demetriou’s mind when he created the British comedy series Stath Lets Flats—but whatever happened to him really works for me. Demetriou plays a bumbling Greek Cypriot bro named Stath who “works” (he is not good at his job) for his father’s property-rental company. The bits in this show are absolutely relentless. Stath and his sister, Sophie (played by Demetriou’s actual sister, Natasia Demetriou), speak in what I, as an American, can only assume is a bastardized North London accent mangled by grammar so poor that you can’t help but laugh at every line. Stath can be a bit overwhelming: too many things to laugh at, not enough time to process them all. The show’s pacing is quick—it’s a fire hose of absurd dialogue and bizarre situations. For maximum enjoyment, I like to watch it with the TV remote in hand so I can easily rewind and replay the same scene multiple times.The last thing that made me cry: On a recent flight home from Italy, I finally watched Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s zombie threequel, 28 Years Later—and I didn’t just cry; I wept. Like, I had to pause the movie and ask the person in the aisle seat (my husband, fortunately) to let me out so I could stumble to the bathroom and clean up my sno