YMMV / Chickens

• Audience-Alienating Premise: This series did not take off the same way The Inbetweeners did, despite more-or-less being Inbetweeners in World War One (and in fact, two of the leads being pretty much exact clones of their characters from that show, transplanted to WW1, while the third has elements of Neil). While a lot of this can be tracked back to both It's the Same, Now It Sucks!, the biggest reason Inbetweeners worked and Chickens didn't was that the titular Inbetweeners were all Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist characters who brought on much of their own misery, and were genuinely quite shitty to the women around them (who by contrast, were typically just responding how any reasonable person would to a group of idiots like them). Chickens, however, had the main two be completely reasonable guys who are mercilessly abused by the townswomen due to Double Standard sexism, all because they didn't join in on a war, even though two of them had good reasons for it.
• Designated Monkey: As said, the main trio are ostracised from society for being the only young men in their town who didn't go off to fight and die in WW1. However, one of them was medically unable to, while another was a conscientious objector. While it is somewhat historically accurate that the latter would be socially deemed a coward, this isn't an attitude that many would find funny today, especially given what World War 1 was like, making the rest of the cast look like unrelenting, bigoted assholes who get away with it.
• Informed Wrongness: The premise of the show is about how men who don't go to fight in war are cowards, and thus OK to be mocked. Putting aside the fact Cecil was medically unable to serve but made it clear he wanted to, but the show was set during the backdrop of World War One, one of the worst armed conflicts in history, and one that many view as being All for Nothing. While the attitude is somewhat befitting the time it was set, it's not an attitude that's exactly popular in the year the series debuted.
• Uncertain Audience: Putting aside the unfunny approach to World War One-era gender politics, Inbetweeners fans probably aren't interested in a period piece, while fans of period piece TV probably aren't fans of Inbetweeners-style cringe comedy. That the show is also mocking conscientious objectors leads to the implication that A Real Man Is a Killer, but the sort of people who'd agree with this mindset wouldn't exactly be lining up to a show all about emasculating three men, while those who'd disagree with that mindset wouldn't appreciate being mocked the way they are in the show.