Alexander Armstrong just walks out on Caroline Quentin without any warning or discussion, leaving her to fend for two kids. Then he starts a new relationship with a woman he works with. What a bastard!
I seem to remember that Mike Bullen himself was divorced and remarried but don't quote me on that.
The 'style' is over-editing, with its 'trademark' device of showing one sequence from three different points of view rapidly cut together. And I don't mean something significant, I mean like someone getting out of bed.
Supporting cast: Claire Skinner, Anne Reid, Frank Finlay, Stuart McQuarrie, Danny Webb, Elliot Henderson-Boyle & Ace Ryan (the kids). Neighbour Elle Haddington and daughter Abby Ford. At travel agency: Paul Thornley, Chloe Howman, Sarah Okeze, Michelle Holmes.
By season three, Webb, Haddington and Ford have been jettisoned in favour of new neighbours, swingers Alexandra Gilbraith and Matthew Cottle, but the new house still only has one bathroom - what dumbasses. Their kids and unstably married friends are all having problems, and Armstrong is still grappling with what it takes to simply be a good husband... but it all ends up quite satisfactorily. A good diversion.
Six- eight part series for ITV, solidly held together by Quentin.
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