This is a television show that I was totally unaware, when it screened originally and I am, just catching up with it on ITV X iPlayer.
To call the Braithwaites dysfunctional is a monumental understatement, it appears to me that it's written from Alison Braithwaites perspective, of her as the sane sensible one, the calm centre of the tumult that is her family.
The principle Braithwaites father David and brother Graham, are really cut from the same cloth, regardless of what they claim to the contrary, they are both parasites through and through.
The three Braithwaites daughters, Charlotte, Sarah, and Virginia, are all in their own ways, selfish self centred and egotistical, traits that certainly stem from the family gene pool.
The Braithwaites clan are far from being, the only dysfunctional family in this show, their neighbours the Hartnoll's, with pompous pedantic bore Mike, and bored and wayward spouse Megan.
David Braithwaites secretary Elaine Fishwick, is part of yet another dysfunctional unit, with kids of her own and I don't recall, seeing hide nor hair of a spouse.
These are but the main players in this, extended spousal farrago of unhappy families, it's not something that I expected much from, but it's actually not that bad, it's overall well acted, and at times hilarious if mostly highly implausible.
To call the Braithwaites dysfunctional is a monumental understatement, it appears to me that it's written from Alison Braithwaites perspective, of her as the sane sensible one, the calm centre of the tumult that is her family.
The principle Braithwaites father David and brother Graham, are really cut from the same cloth, regardless of what they claim to the contrary, they are both parasites through and through.
The three Braithwaites daughters, Charlotte, Sarah, and Virginia, are all in their own ways, selfish self centred and egotistical, traits that certainly stem from the family gene pool.
The Braithwaites clan are far from being, the only dysfunctional family in this show, their neighbours the Hartnoll's, with pompous pedantic bore Mike, and bored and wayward spouse Megan.
David Braithwaites secretary Elaine Fishwick, is part of yet another dysfunctional unit, with kids of her own and I don't recall, seeing hide nor hair of a spouse.
These are but the main players in this, extended spousal farrago of unhappy families, it's not something that I expected much from, but it's actually not that bad, it's overall well acted, and at times hilarious if mostly highly implausible.