EPISODE
SEASON
Derek - Season 2
In the second season, the Meadway Animal Rescue Center comes to visit to get things back on track. Now for Derek, that means playing with Ivor unusually, and Kev is practicing his artistic talents that seem to be fun to some. Derek deals with the sad news that turned his day upside down.
21 July 1932, West Ham, Essex, England, UK
1979, England, UK
1975, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
18 January 1936, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
7 October 1978, Rochford, Essex, England, UK
June 02, 2014
Settling back into Derek after so much time away was like pulling on one of Derek's brightly-coloured sweaters: it's warm and comfortable and you never want to take it off again.
April 24, 2014
There's certainly a good show here... Where better to mine pathos than a financially struggling old people's home?
June 16, 2014
Leave it to Derek to make grabbing a used pregnancy test from the garbage, holding it up and announcing someone else's pregnancy a heartwarming bit of TV.
September 25, 2018
Unfortunately, Derek is less comedy and more tragedy, the biggest tragedy being Gervais's flailing attempt at a follow-up to earlier successes.
June 05, 2014
An episode of The Office or Extras would be wasted on Derek; he's completely happy when he's watching an online video of little piggies and bunnies doing cute things. Derek has all the creative ambition of one of those videos.
June 02, 2014
With how much of [Gervais] he is visibly investing in this show, it will still be worth watching every potentially creaky moment of it.
May 29, 2014
Derek is a poignant and funny character sketch.
September 24, 2018
The new series of Derek opens with brilliant comic scenes about spiders, electrocution and sex between clowns and chimps but, by the end of the half hour, viewers just might be quietly weeping.
August 07, 2014
Though "Derek" still has moments of sweetness, much of the romance from its initial go-round has vanished, replaced by crude jokes.
