I'm most likely in a minority here, but I really cannot understand why this is being portrayed as a comedy. It portrays a totally sterile marriage where the husband and wife have no connection whatsoever and just stay together out of habit. The husband is unable to recognize or meet his wife's emotional, or other, needs while the wife is equally unable to make those needs plain to her husband, meanwhile their two live-at-home sons seem to have no respect whatsoever for either of them. Meanwhile, the wife is being pursued relentlessy by a handsome stranger who wants nothing more than an affair with her-while wanting to indulge, she is afraid to take the step as it would undoubtedly signal the end of her marriage, so she remains eternally dissatisfied with life.
It's a bleak view of what many marriages become, without a single comedy moment in it. The only redeeming feature is that it is the fist time that we see Nicholas Lyndhurst in a long-running serial-he's later to become well known as the immortal Rodney in Only Fools and Horses-now THAT'S a comedy!.
It's a bleak view of what many marriages become, without a single comedy moment in it. The only redeeming feature is that it is the fist time that we see Nicholas Lyndhurst in a long-running serial-he's later to become well known as the immortal Rodney in Only Fools and Horses-now THAT'S a comedy!.