Kelly's characterisation was too exaggerated and really grated because of the writer's insistence on featuring her so prominently in the series. At times I wondered if this was a comedy centred around Kelly and not Cathy.
If Kelly had been "dialled down" it would've been a lot better (but still a long way short of great).
Oh I really disagree: I think Kelly's character is brilliant and is played suberbly - I feel we are getting to know her bit by bit and discovering that under the silly, naivity there is a very sensitive person.
Loved the series from start to finish.
Agreed Beebell. It also showed the damaged person. There are a couple of posters here who are hating on Kelly and just do not get it. You only have to glimpse Kelly's Mum to see why Kelly clings on to the life-raft that is Cathy and her stability.
Kelly is a lovely warm person. Thick as a brick, mind you, and I would be mortified if my son (if I had one) brought her home as the love of his life. But if my son were as thick as Jason is,then one might realize they are perfect *for each other*.
I am amazed at how many people claim to have watched the series and still not got it. It is a show about tolerance and understanding. Trying to make the best of any situation. It is a show about Love. True Love. Not the kind of thing that the Tindr generation think of love as being in shallow minds. But helping people rather than condemning them with hateful, hurtful statements.
One poster put that they would have given Kelly a piece of their mind and told her to get out when she absent mindedly broke Cathy's necklace and that Kelly was a bully and Cathy was a wimp. I might be wrong but I thought just about everything in the opposite way. Kelly is a lost, damaged soul who is at the mercy of the man she ends up with. If she ends up with a *bad* man she would bend to his will, if she ends up with a *good* man her inner self would shine out. Cathy seems to get all of this. Maybe it's a generational thing. Cathy, being a little older gets that it isn't "All about her" that so many younger people seem to think (and Pauline) it is. To misquote Clinton "It isn't about you, Stupid".
Cathy sees that Kelly needs care and warmth and isn't prepared to throw it all on the scrapheap over a necklace.
The world needs more Cathies.
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