It could so nearly have been Tripped (E4), a comic sci-fi adventure in which Blake Harrison from The Inbetweeners plays a young man about to commit to his grownup life when he is suddenly sucked into a multidimensional portal. He and stoner pal Milo (played by newcomer George Webster) are hurled from one parallel reality to the next, trying to evade an evil assassin called Callum (Richard Gadd) who, for reasons not yet clear, must vanquish every version of them in every dimensionIt has some of the glee of Bill & Ted and some of the imagination of co-writer Jamie Mathieson’s outstanding Doctor Who episodes, Mummy on the Orient Express and Flatline. But it is co-written, rather oddly, by Jack and Harry Williams, the brothers responsible for BBC1’s The Missing, that harrowing drama series about child abduction starring James Nesbitt. Perhaps the Williams’ grounding in dour domestic saga was supposed to mingle with Mathieson’s demonstrable sci-fi ingenuity to create a rewarding hybrid. But what ends up on screen is a nearly funny, almost-engaging compromise, neither truly hitting the funny bone nor giving itself over to all-action drama. I note with a sinking heart that Mathieson’s name doesn’t appear on any future episodes past this lively but hit-and-miss opener
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