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It is a series of events that speak of a novice DJ who is still resisting to rebuild his musical career through more challenges while working. Perhaps the biggest challenge for this man is that he is raising the daughter of his 11-year-old friend. Events start with Charlie when he receives a strong and unexpected job offer after a phone call with his successful friend, and there may be more challenges for Charlie.
It's frustrating to see an artist with such ambition settle for something so elementary. It's harmless, sure, but it's also inconsequential and unkempt.
If Turn Up Charlie never fully catches fire, exactly, it crackles along quite pleasantly - evolving, over the course of eight episodes, into something a lot more tangled and interesting than its initial premise suggests.
Elba has a nice rapport with all of his co-stars, Hervey in particular, but the whole thing just left me wanting to see Elba demonstrate his chops in a better-written comedy.
Turn Up Charlie does a fantastic job of winding up self-centered twits into tossing epic fits and snits. If only it expended as much effort on making things, you know, funny.
Turn Up Charlie plays like an engrossing screwball battle of wits between the DJ and his 12-year-old charge, a cruel Gen Z spawn from Hell played by an extraordinary child newcomer, Frankie Hervey.
The only consistent pleasure of Turn Up Charlie is, most likely, the only reason you gave this show a shot in the first place: the copious footage of Idris Elba DJing...
Though it can be binge-watched painlessly enough,... Turn Up Charlie is such a disassembled example of a "Welcome to my world" TV show that it ought to come with its own Allen wrench.