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Like a twerking vicar,"Father Figure" is one of those hideously embarrassing phenomena best viewed between slightly parted fingers - if at all. A re - run of the most awful racist homophobic comic series of the 70's would be preferable to any but the most masochistic of TV audiences. One might be forgiven for thinking that because Miss P.Mclynn is in the cast that "Father Figure",set in London's Irish community,might at lest benefit from her presence but not even she is capable of breathing life into such abysmal material. We have the not exactly original plot involving a househusband feeling emasculated by his career - minded wife and appalling children and surrounded by friends and relatives who the writers would no doubt refer to as "wacky",but who,in truth are the result of lazy plagiarism and an insult to the audience's intelligence. The performances are dire,the children being exceptionally inept I'm afraid.I can't believe it was conceived in the same century that has produced "Outnumbered". "Father Figure" has succeeded in the difficult task of making "My Family" seem like high art.