My sense of humor tends to run on the dry side like a single drop of vermouth hitting the most parched patch in Death Valley so I enjoy this series for being similar to that. It is very talky, very wordy, and without a trace of physical comedy. Some episodes never leave a living room or a dining room table. The most physical comedy you get is gestures and looks either while giving or receiving a line of dialogue. If you are expecting something along the lines of Faulty Towers. Dad's Army or Steptoe and Son with that brilliant blend of both forms of comedy, you won't find it here.
The show was meant to be contemporary which makes it very dated with references to early 80s problems and paranoia over nuclear war which many were forced to believe to be inevitable by mass media like the rising sea levels nonsense today.
The setting and plot is preposterous for most of the series. Young couple with a newborn manage to go a few series eating and living in their own two story house while neither of them have any kind of income except for what James Shelley gets from government assistance. Despite that, they still whine about the government and make excuses for never seriously doing anything to support their daughter, themselves and pay their own bills. That's basically the entire premise and it goes on from there without really getting anywhere. The irony of irritating sitcoms from this era is their political snipping probably did more to keep Thatcher remaining as PM for over a decade than convince the public to vote liberal.
The show was meant to be contemporary which makes it very dated with references to early 80s problems and paranoia over nuclear war which many were forced to believe to be inevitable by mass media like the rising sea levels nonsense today.
The setting and plot is preposterous for most of the series. Young couple with a newborn manage to go a few series eating and living in their own two story house while neither of them have any kind of income except for what James Shelley gets from government assistance. Despite that, they still whine about the government and make excuses for never seriously doing anything to support their daughter, themselves and pay their own bills. That's basically the entire premise and it goes on from there without really getting anywhere. The irony of irritating sitcoms from this era is their political snipping probably did more to keep Thatcher remaining as PM for over a decade than convince the public to vote liberal.