With my Netflix and my Hulu, I, like most of you, can smugly avoid most commercials. Are they any good these days? I doubt it, and I’m sure whatever crap they’re flinging doesn’t hold a candle to the wonderful advertising that comes out of England. Those fancy folks—with their tea and dry humor!—have for years produced commercials that get shared on YouTube and liked on Facebook and turned into gifs for our Tumblrs. And because internet shares don’t mean a heck of a lot, the British Arrows Awards are held to formally recognize excellence in British advertising, and they’ve done us the favor of shipping the finalists over to watch on the big screen.
Elinor Jones writes the gossip column, THE TRASH REPORT, as well as movie reviews, and dinosaur stuff. She likes your lipstick. More by Elinor Jones