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Susan Nickson should step away from the show now.


She needs to distance herself from Grownups series 2 because it really is utter rubbish. She can be a brilliant writer as she has proved with Two Pints but the writing on this new series is awful. What have they done to a show that was fairly funny, with likeable people? Now they have

The lowest common demoninater of the barman himbo removing his top every few minutes (Gaz does it much better and at least it is in context).
Offensive comments and insults that don't have anything to with the plot (speccy four eyes comment to Chris).
They've made the lead character a really unlikeable and horrible person who deliberately aims to hurt the people around her.
Her one dimensional best friend who just talks about shagging people.
A boss who seems to be almost a carbon copy of a character from a different show.
Introduced a new character out of nowhere who wasn't even 'introduced' to the audience.
Removed a popular character with no explanation as to what has happened to them.
Promoted gun use and drug taking in a casual way.
Made the show just about shagging and perverse comments and sexual innuendo.

The only constant from the first show it seems is Grant whose character doesn't seem to have changed. I'm assuming that we, the audience are meant to be on his side.

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I can sum up this show in two words... watch...

It's shyte.

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Michelles friend reminds me of Kelly from 2 pints.

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Grownups is a carbon copy of Two Pints. You have Kelly, Gaz, and Louise. Grant seems to be a slightly more intelligent and likable version of Munch. I don't like Sheridan Smith as Michelle, she seems interested in nothing but sex. The funniest part of the series so far was Michelle spanking that blow up doll. I also found Claire to be remarkably similar to Kelly, but Kelly was much funnier. Alex is ok, but the flimsy excuses for taking his top off are annoying.

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wow I didn't even realise that this was written by the same person as Two Pints but I agree with the original poster. She shud step away from it now!!!

This is just awful compared to 2 pints!!!

I watched it cos Sheridan Smith was in it, expecting it to be good but I just cringed throughout the whole thing!!!! I was so embarrassed for Sheridan!!

Two Pints, whilst completely daft is really really funny but this rubbish didn't raise one laugh from me. I was really disappointed

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I LOVED the first series, all the characters were funny, (i thought at least!) very random and silly but funny. Mike reminded me of my brother, Grant was cute, Michelle reminded me of myself and Claire reminded me of myself after a few Cosmos lol. Now, Grant is a thousand time pervier than he was, Michelle is just a bitch and EVERY joke is sex related. Now I'm probably one of the dirtiest minded people you'd ever be likely to meet and I'm so bored of the sex jokes, there's just NO other humour at all. The only thing I really laugh at now is the barman finding a tonnes of random and obscure excuses to keep removing his top. I thought it was going to be annoying and it kind of is but the reasons behind the top removal make me laugh a little.

Really though... thay should have left it at one series!

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well I am only really judging it on one episode that i saw the other night, the one where sheridan's character has a job interview and sings the Jim'll Fix It tune.

I just didn't like anything about it and wasn't tempted to watch another episode

I am no prude and enjoy sex jokes but the ones in this episode just smacked of desperation



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I love series one which I have on DVD. I agree with you guys as the second series has taken a big change. Susan does seem to use a lot of humour based on sex and off the wall dialogue in the script for laughs.

Sex, which was used a lot in Two Pints and off the wall humour, was also used in Two Pints. I don't want to turn into another version of Two Pints, or TPOLAAPOC (Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps), as I call it for short. LOL

I don't mind seeing Alex, Chris and Grant semi-naked as that is lovely (Warren Brown who plays Alex has lovely pectorals, hehehe), but surely she can make us laugh by using other things in her writing like French and Saunders did, Rik and Adrian did, Simon Nye did, Ben Elton did, John Sullivan did, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett did, etc.

Michelle and Grant have changed it seems, by going up a level, in a sense. They should have been kept how they were in series one and Mike and Dean should have been mentioned to there whereabouts. Very bad continuity, Susan Nickson.

The cast credits on here had their surnames, which I added, but someone has changed them back to just their first names. "The swines!” as Russell Brand would say. LOL

Anyway, you have: Michelle Booth and her older brother, Mike Booth. Michelle and Mike's good friend and lawyer, Grant Aloysius Grant, Michelle's ex-boyfriend, Dean Adewale, and Michelle's other good friend, and man-hungry-girl, Clare Finnerty. Hehehe. :D

Alex, Chris and Rachel, I have no idea what their surnames are yet. If they are still there in series three, if there is another series, maybe we'll find out what their called in full as well.

Dazza xx :)

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