Jerk

Jerk

2019
★★★☆☆ 6.2/10
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 14 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 20 min/episode
Comedy
Jerk follows the life of acclaimed stand up Tim Renkow, who plays a heightened version of himself; an American art school dropout who needs to get a visa to stay in the UK. The only problem is that Tim has cerebral palsy. This means that people judge him… all the time. Although usually they judge him wrongly, because what they don’t realise is that inside that severely disabled, vulnerable body is a bit of an asshole.

Seasons

Season 1
2019 • 4 Episodes
Tim is employed by a greeting card company headed by Shaun (Karl Theobald), but takes excessive advantage of his disabled status.
Season 2
2021 • 4 Episodes
Tim is back and has enrolled himself on a uni course - not that he has any intention of going. But a student visa means he can stay in the UK and wreak more havoc.
Season 3
2023 • 6 Episodes
An open casting for actors in a period biopic leads Tim to a role as an extra, which quickly turns to him replacing James Norton as the disabled lead, with chaotic results.

Network

BBC Three

Production

Roughcut Television, Gogglebox Entertainment, Primal Media

Keywords

dark comedydisabilitycerebral palsy