Benidorm the comedy

"Benidorm" the comedy (US link - UK link).
This is surprisingly good. First, I'll contrast by quoting from a review by G. Thomas:
"Benidorm is in fact a place on the Costa Brava (Mainland Spain) Frequented many years by the Brits. Benidorm (the place) is notorious for it's loud and obnoxious English & Irish bars, Littered with the typical tacky tourist, equivilant of Trailo Trash.
Benidorm comedy series is based around several families from Great Britain who spend every holiday in Benidorm, and never really travel anywhere else. Benidorm sterotypes typical trashy families dealing with tanorexia, drinking problems and sex.
If you love the new British comedies, and are able to understand English accents that are not typical Queens dialect then this is a must.
Crude, lewd and a little rude Benidorm is "Laugh out loud", and has taken the UK by storm."

This is all true, but what surprises me is that not only is series two, which I've watching now, at least as good as series one, but it rises well beyond it's genre. For one thing it's not just "good fun", it's really hilarious. For another thing, it's beautifully filmed, they actually manage to sometimes make a down-market big-concrete hotel look beautiful. And third, even while being rude and funny, somehow it manages to also be subtly pithy and touching.

For example there's an older couple, both of them are ridiculously over-tanned (their grandson expects any (unlikely) offspring to be "orange"), and pretty ridiculous overall (for example the woman insists on a motorchair, even though she can walk fine). The man shows up to the hotel's careoke night dressed like John T in Saturday Night Fever, complete with jewel-studded belt buckle. He looks shocking, and he plays it to the hilt, deadpan.
And then he gets up to sing a love song to the ol' gal... in falcetto! And then proposes to her. And carries her out, under great struggle. It's all LOL funny, but damn it all if it does not at the same time manage to be sort of sweet!