Especially if you’re a member of the disaffected youth where every day mingles into one and your future prospects are pretty nil.
This is what BBC3, now solely on iPlayer, looks into with the new mockumentary This Country.
And Kerry and Kurtan are now my new favourite comedy characters.
Like all good mockumentaries it is a seat-squirming watch as you follow these characters aimlessly going about their lives.
Growing up in Marlborough in the shadow of urban Swindon I felt I knew these fully formed characters already. It’s a great place to live but when you’re young there’s just simply nothing to do and to get anywhere in life you have to leave or you just end up squandering your days as everybody else moves on.
In fact Kurtan could be my mate Shaun - wondering aimlessly through life but still smiling as he does it.
We all know a Kurtan or a Kerry. They’re the people at school who just couldn’t be bothered and now just live to scrape by.
There’s literally nothing for them to do in the village that they live in. It’s a bubble that they are scared to leave where time moves so slowly that whole episodes revolve around them arguing about who gets the top part of the oven when cooking a pizza.
Their lives are ripe for comedy but they’re also ripe for a bit of biting social commentary and it says a lot about this show that you end up laughing with them and not at them but you also feel for them and their plight.
Although it follows the mould of The Office, Parks and Recreation and even The Thick Of It as we are essentially the fly on the wall, it most closely resembles People Just Do Nothing. Like their fellow BBC3 stablemate it follows the antics of the younger generation as they try desperately to find their place in a society that has forgotten them.
The characterisations on both shows are spot on. These are real people who you recognise and know.
It is this generation who are being left behind and if it takes a bit of biting satire in mockumentary form for us to start taking notice then so be it.
It’s also bloody funny though.