I love Nicola Pagett.If you remember "Upstairs Downstairs" and the character she played in that and now watch her in this...the contrast is just amazing.
A very odd show, especially the second series which gave up on the laughter track, leaving the dwindling TV audience abandoned alone to discern anything funny in it, us poor saps. So on the surface, it now has all the appearance of an Alan Ayckbourn play, but even the casual viewer will quickly realise the characters have little of the depth or truth of anything he would produce. So all we're left with is a farce stretched painfully well beyond any purpose or effect, and characters that continuously contradict themselves - For instance, the Quigley character, who one minute is chaste and committed to his wife and the next is coming on to Nicola Pagett's, who in turn welcomes then rejects him. I wish I could say this is in the spirit of a Katherine Hepburn/ Cary Grant flirtation piece, but in reality it's just bored, lazy writing. A horrible failure that is justifiably forgotten, but there are genuinely funny moments and lines, ironically wholly inspite of the construction of the frenetic plot, in which the writer intended to be where the majority of the humour should have derived from. Anyway, a spectacular mess, but for the laughs in it, which were quite plentiful, 4/10 (at a major push)
Oh god! I watched the first two episodes of the first series and wondered how long they could stretch out this weak premise of a plot. It’s still going and it hasn’t got anywhere. Deplorable script what a waste of the talents of these good actors. I bet they are huge,y embarrassed about having acted in this, but I guess everyone has to eat.
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Finally something that makes me laugh. Thank you!
Watching from Cape town South Africa 2024
Found season 1 very entertaining- would recommend! the laughs were worth my time! (Season 2 .. Not so much)
Are you expecting a lot of traffic through our room.
I love Nicola Pagett.If you remember "Upstairs Downstairs" and the character she played in that and now watch her in this...the contrast is just amazing.
this is one of the weirdest shows ever
Good stuff
Think of Diana Rigg, Avengers to old bat in Victoria.
Great actress.
She was brilliant in Anna Karenina
RIP Nicola Pagett 1945-2021
Yes, lovely actress.
Fantastic
Davidson is great
Funniest episode 😂
No laughing in the back ground (Live audience).
The mother was a real nutcase
7:43 my girlfriend behind the bar
Sgt. MILLER from Heartbeat.
A very odd show, especially the second series which gave up on the laughter track, leaving the dwindling TV audience abandoned alone to discern anything funny in it, us poor saps. So on the surface, it now has all the appearance of an Alan Ayckbourn play, but even the casual viewer will quickly realise the characters have little of the depth or truth of anything he would produce. So all we're left with is a farce stretched painfully well beyond any purpose or effect, and characters that continuously contradict themselves - For instance, the Quigley character, who one minute is chaste and committed to his wife and the next is coming on to Nicola Pagett's, who in turn welcomes then rejects him. I wish I could say this is in the spirit of a Katherine Hepburn/ Cary Grant flirtation piece, but in reality it's just bored, lazy writing. A horrible failure that is justifiably forgotten, but there are genuinely funny moments and lines, ironically wholly inspite of the construction of the frenetic plot, in which the writer intended to be where the majority of the humour should have derived from. Anyway, a spectacular mess, but for the laughs in it, which were quite plentiful, 4/10 (at a major push)
Someone should of told Lester that balding men with pony nubs look ridiculous.
Just would’ve been better w/ varied Cole Porter tunes between the theme songs.
Feel so sorry for the woman
Poor script
Sandra Naylor it’s simple fun
Oh god! I watched the first two episodes of the first series and wondered how long they could stretch out this weak premise of a plot. It’s still going and it hasn’t got anywhere. Deplorable script what a waste of the talents of these good actors. I bet they are huge,y embarrassed about having acted in this, but I guess everyone has to eat.
I agree.
At that time this was humor
You are probably right.
Peter Davidson is a terrible actor in this.
A silly episode, the weakest so far in the second series.
This episode is by far the worst
RIP Nicola Pagett 1945-2021
Oh dear didnt know she died this year rip.