TV comedy seems to be particularly full of idiots at the moment, from the youthful lovers in Mum to the shell-suited clowns in The Young Offenders. But my favourites – although it's a close run thing with the two young offenders – are probably Kurtan (Charlie Cooper) and Kerry Mucklowe (Daisy May Cooper), the stars of this beautifully observed spoof documentary looking at life among the disenfranchised in the Cotswolds.

In the second episode of the second series Kurtan gets a job as a labourer. Somehow, however, you know it isn't going to mark a sea change in his life. Is he going to be able to abide by the rules – never leave his mug in the van, never tell jokes to the gaffer and always bring a homemade cake on Cake Tuesday? Kerry is not convinced he is cut out for hard graft like this: "He's gonna drown like a pig in the sea".

Meanwhile Kerry is having a problem with anonymous letters she is receiving of a sexual, slightly sado-masochistic nature. "We arm wrestle...my trousers fall down." She enlists the help of Mandy (Ashley McGuire), who, among her many talents, turns out to be a martial arts expert. Or at least she claims to be an expert – we never actually see her in action.

And that's really the key to This Country. We never really see any action unless you count a mug being smashed or a Slush Puppy being knocked out of their mate Slugs' hand. The comedy is in the talking about the action. Instead of high drama Kerry chats about collecting toy meerkats, Kurtan pays way over the odds for a computer monitor and we hear Kerry's unseen mum screaming down the stairs asking for Poldark to be recorded. Tedium has never been so hilarious.

Available now here and on BBC One, Tuesday, March 13, 10.45pm.