I don't actually know why I'm watching it, I think it's awful. I suppose it's easy background noise when I'm getting ready for work or whatever, but when I try to think about it, I actually find it quite irritating.
It's full of all that post-Gervais mugging and twitching but is also loaded with unbearable cutesiness - the lighter side of infidelity. Giggling together about the wife writhing and orgasming in the arms of her current employer. And the husband, well, he gets mildly peeved about it now and again. Tell-it-like-it-is supporting character always saying crude, inappropriate things (the driving instructor sister)? Check. Droll sidekick chipping in with gloomy aphorisms (the wooden Alun Cochrane)? Check. The bald work colleague at the doctor's surgery has some funny lines and can actually act, albeit in the aforementioned post-modern Gervais manner, but it's not enough to rescue the show.
Kudos to it for showing that decent people DO have affairs sometimes (a rarity in TV comedy or drama, and usually followed by Biblical retribution) but this deals with it in such a trivial way the wife might just as well have burned the dinner for all the angst her affair has caused.
Awight we're The Daamned we're a punk baand and this is called Carn't Be Appy T'day!
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duchessshoes
10 years ago
Great summary Purple. Agreed about Cochrane's acting, it's as wooden as a large building constructed entirely of wood.
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