This is TV perfection.
Daisy Haggard and Laura Solon have conjured up such a delightful comedy world that it simply takes your breath away at the exquisiteness of it all.
The character acting here is beside itself...
Ade Edmondson - stunning weirdo revenge seeking father of murdered child.
Haggard herself, of course, every bit as good as she was in Breeders, probably better in fact as the open eyed innocent (Miri) returning for 18 years in prison for child murder (wrongly convicted).
Geraldine James, Miri's Mum. Daft as a brush and chastised by her middle class community for having an affair with a much younger man.
Richard Durden gives us an astonishing laugh out loud performance as Miri's Dad, the green crusader who hates his wife for her affair but is trying to forgive her. Comedy gold.
Adeel Akhtar is simply delightful as Miri's maybe-boyfriend and Ice cream Van Owner.
Meera Syall as quiet Adeel's Matriarchal and dominant Indian mother.
There you go, that's six award winning performances to start with, and there are many more.
It's a touchy and dangerous subject but it's not really all that black in its humour. It's observational and has great constructs to play with: Forgiveness leading the way but technology too. Mira hasn't a clue what all this "stuff" is after two decades behind bars and its subtly teased out to the pleasure of us viewers.
Really Daisy Haggard is a national treasure. But both this and Breeders have not been big hits, I can't understand why because both are brilliant.
If either, or both, are new to you then you are in for a very big treat.
Daisy Haggard and Laura Solon have conjured up such a delightful comedy world that it simply takes your breath away at the exquisiteness of it all.
The character acting here is beside itself...
Ade Edmondson - stunning weirdo revenge seeking father of murdered child.
Haggard herself, of course, every bit as good as she was in Breeders, probably better in fact as the open eyed innocent (Miri) returning for 18 years in prison for child murder (wrongly convicted).
Geraldine James, Miri's Mum. Daft as a brush and chastised by her middle class community for having an affair with a much younger man.
Richard Durden gives us an astonishing laugh out loud performance as Miri's Dad, the green crusader who hates his wife for her affair but is trying to forgive her. Comedy gold.
Adeel Akhtar is simply delightful as Miri's maybe-boyfriend and Ice cream Van Owner.
Meera Syall as quiet Adeel's Matriarchal and dominant Indian mother.
There you go, that's six award winning performances to start with, and there are many more.
It's a touchy and dangerous subject but it's not really all that black in its humour. It's observational and has great constructs to play with: Forgiveness leading the way but technology too. Mira hasn't a clue what all this "stuff" is after two decades behind bars and its subtly teased out to the pleasure of us viewers.
Really Daisy Haggard is a national treasure. But both this and Breeders have not been big hits, I can't understand why because both are brilliant.
If either, or both, are new to you then you are in for a very big treat.