YMMV / Press Gang

• Adorkable: Lynda wears clothes that don't match like a polka dot skirt while wearing a jacket. She also doesn't have great social skills.
• Broken Base: There's a minor one over whether the show was better in the first two series within the school setting or whether the show continued on a fairly even keel throughout its entire run, even though it took a noticeably increasingly grownup tone once the characters left school.
• Jerkass Woobie: Lynda and Colin.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The show started filming in the late 80s. The main cast use typewriters like it's a normal thing and it's considered a huge deal when they get a very basic desktop computer. The opening titles utilize synth music with the cast doing the classic smile at the camera freeze frame with their name underneath. The clothes, sets and most of the hairstyles are very indicative of the time it was filmed, even the extras wear brighter colours.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: It's fairly ambiguous exactly how sympathetic he's meant to be, but regardless of how "Monday-Tuesday" ends, David Jefford does genuinely appear to be precisely the rich jerk the main crew has him pegged as at the start, what with his blatant attempt to blackmail his way onto the writing team by threatening the future of the paper as well as almost certainly putting most of the students at risk of potentially severe disciplinary action by the school, as well as his smug and thoroughly entitled attitude throughout the episode. We're only given Mr Kerr's word for it that his life was in any way significantly unhappy beyond Lynda not giving him what he wants which can make the tragedy and the shell-shocked reaction from the main crew seem a little hollow.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The show was aimed at children and teenagers, was frequently hilarious...and featured topics such as glue-sniffing leading to accidental death, child sexual abuse, a gun seige at a newspaper office, a gas leak resulting in a building blowing up (half of the episode was about one survivor, trapped in the rubble, trying to keep another alive until the rescuers could get to her...which didn't work), teachers having extramarital affairs, and so on. Storylines also focussed on a suicide, a reporter coaxing a confession of manslaughter out of a half-blinded gang member over the phone, and a death by drug overdose (Lynda was not overly sympathetic). There's a reason that its co-creator and sole scriptwriter went on to become Executive Producer of Doctor Who...
• The Woobie: Kenny, who has been enduring endless amounts of personal abuse from Lynda since the age of six, has his wardrobe invaded by Colin with a recording mike, and on one occasion manages to fall in love with a wrong number.

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