Things You Should Have Done

• Lucia Keskin as Lucia "Chi" Morelli
• Selin Hizli as Karen
• Jamie Bisping as Lucas
• Daniel Fearn as Dave

• Sinead Matthews as Michelle
• Steve Brody as Gary
• Martha Cope as Chi's Mum
• Darren Strange as Chi's Dad
• Sunil Patel as Solicitor Adam
• Sachin K Sharma as Chank

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| EpisodeNumber = 1

| Title = Learn to Drive

| DirectedBy = Jack Clough

| WrittenBy = Lucia Keskin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2024|2|29}}

| ShortSummary = After her parents die, Chi must fend for herself, beginning with driving lessons.

| LineColor = #e3a9a2

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 2

| Title = Get a Job

| DirectedBy = Jack Clough

| WrittenBy = Nathan Foad

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2024|2|29}}

| ShortSummary = Chi begins looking for a job, but discovers a retirement home instead.

| LineColor = #e3a9a2

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 3

| Title = Learn to Cook

| DirectedBy = Jack Clough

| WrittenBy = Lucia Keskin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2024|3|7}}

| ShortSummary = Chi celebrates Pancake Day with the family.

| LineColor = #e3a9a2

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 4

| Title = Pay Your Bills

| DirectedBy = Jack Clough

| WrittenBy = Lucia Keskin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2024|3|7}}

| ShortSummary = After the lights in her house go out, Chi learns what bills are.

| LineColor = #e3a9a2

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 5

| Title = Do Something for Someone/Anyone

| DirectedBy = Jack Clough

| WrittenBy = Lucia Keskin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2024|3|14}}

| ShortSummary = To help her Aunt Karen relax, Chi organises a camping holiday for the family.

| LineColor = #e3a9a2

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 6

| Title = Get Out of Kent

| DirectedBy = Jack Clough

| WrittenBy = Lucia Keskin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2024|3|14}}

| ShortSummary = Chi looks to begin a new life by moving to Spain with Michelle.

| LineColor = #e3a9a2

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On 24 May 2023, it was announced that the BBC had commissioned a sitcom created by Lucia Keskin.{{Cite web |date=24 May 2023 |title=Jon Petrie announces new and returning series featuring stellar talent and rising stars at the BBC's Comedy Festival in Cardiff |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/jon-petrie-new-returning-comedy-series-bbc/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |website= |publisher=BBC}} Filming for the series took place at several locations in Thanet, Kent, including Broadstairs, Margate, and Ramsgate.{{Cite web |last=Collar |first=Joe |date=4 March 2024 |title="Hopefully people think there *is* acting" — Chi With a C on Things You Should Have Done |url=https://filmhounds.co.uk/2024/03/chi-with-things-you-should-have-done-interview/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=Filmhounds Magazine |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=29 February 2024 |title='I failed my GCSEs at Kent grammar - but now I've got my own BBC show' |url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/i-failed-my-gcses-at-kent-grammar-but-now-i-ve-got-my-own-302550/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=Kent Online |language=en}} The series was inspired by the loss of Keskin's grandfather.{{Cite web |last=Copson |first=Josie |date=29 February 2024 |title='Losing my grandad inspired my BBC sitcom - I enjoy dark humour' |url=https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/29/lucia-keskin-lands-bbc-sitcom-years-viral-video-gcse-failure-20375466/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=Metro |language=en}}

In September 2024, it was announced that the BBC had renewed Things You Should Have Done for a second series.{{Cite web |title=Hit BBC comedy Things You Should Have Done to return for second series |date=7 September 2024 |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/things-you-should-have-done-series-two-announced|access-date=7 September 2024| website=BBC |language=en}}

Things You Should Have Done has received mixed reviews from critics. Isobel Lewis, in a four-star review for iNews, praises Keskin's performance as "a deadpan masterpiece; it takes an incredibly sharp comic actor to play dim this well", and that "this is comedy built entirely around her tastes, and those craving a properly silly show will lap it up".{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=Isobel |date=29 February 2024 |title=Lucia Keskin's Things You Should Have Done is very stupid - and very funny |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/lucia-keskin-things-you-should-have-done-review-2930219 |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=iNews |language=en}}

In a review for Digital Spy, Jamie Windust writes that "Keskin's dark comedy perfectly cast and hilariously stupid" and "taps into comedic devices that twenty-something Brits love".{{Cite web |date=6 March 2024 |title=BBC's new show taps into One Day's nostalgia for twenty-something Brits |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a60109627/bbc-things-i-should-have-done-millennial-gen-z/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}} In comments for The Guardian, Coco Khan adds that the sitcom "showcases the best of Keskin's creative journey" and "her clear potential as a screenwriter with a knack for what audiences find funny and moving".{{Cite news |last=Khan |first=Coco |date=12 March 2024 |title=YouTube sensation Lucia Keskin: 'It's my worst nightmare to be called an influencer' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/12/youtube-sensation-lucia-keskin-its-my-worst-nightmare-to-be-called-an-influencer-things-you-should-have-done-bbc |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

In a three-star review for The Guardian, Lucy Mangan writes, "[the show] has a fine cast, some good moments [...] and plenty of unrealised potential on show", adding that "the death of Chi's parents is just a device – and a potentially wasted one at that: it doesn't make it in any way a show about grief, which might have provided more depth". She concluded that the show "stops feeling quite so much like a loose coalition of slightly underbaked ideas" when "Karen or Lucas ground it more firmly in reality – emotional or otherwise".{{Cite news |last=Mangan |first=Lucy |date=29 February 2024 |title=Things You Should Have Done review – there's tons of potential in this surreal comedy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/29/things-you-should-have-done-review-theres-tons-of-potential-in-this-surreal-comedy |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} Lucy Sweet, writing for The Big Issue, states the show "is still a work in progress" and "the plot seems pretty unhinged and might be in need of some intervention", but adds that "it's worth it to see Keskin flexing her deeply weird skills".{{Cite web |last=Sweet |first=Lucy |date=10 March 2024 |title=Things You Should Have Done is distracting me from the things I should be doing |url=https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/things-you-should-have-done/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=The Big Issue |language=en-GB}}

During an episode of the podcast Off the Telly, co-hosted by Joanna Page and Natalie Cassidy, Page branded the series as "shit" and "boring", adding that she "shouldn't have bothered [to watch it]". In response, Keskin reacted to Page's review with a TikTok video, later stating on Twitter that "there is a way of [criticising] without making someone feel terrible about their work whilst being in the industry themselves".{{Cite web |last=Sarrubba |first=Stefania |date=2024-03-28 |title=Things You Should Have Done star reacts to Joanna Page's scathing review |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/things-done-star-reacts-joanna-194300094.html |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=Yahoo! News |language=en-GB}} Page was subsequently criticised for her comments. Page's Gavin & Stacey co-star Mathew Horne however described the series as "the best thing on television right now".{{cite web |last=Murray |first=Tom |date=29 March 2024 |title=Mathew Horne wades in after Joanna Page's savage takedown of new BBC comedy |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/joanna-page-lucia-keskin-mathew-horne-b2520735.html |access-date=17 April 2024 |website=The Independent |language=en}}

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• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001wry5/things-you-should-have-done Things You Should Have Done] at BBC iPlayer

Category:British English-language television shows

Category:2024 British television series debuts

Category:2020s British sitcoms

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