My Family (TV Series) Death Takes a Policy (2000) User Reviews

What's a water bra?

[Sleepin_Dragon · 6/10 · 17 May 2020]

Nick meets a girl, and wants to impress her by selling his parents an insurance policy. Meanwhile Janey wants a water bra.

I like this episode, it's perhaps the weakest of the series, it's still good, it's just that the others are so much better. Best scenes include Susan and Janey's heart to heart, and Nick wandering into the bedroom of his parents.

I like that this is the beginning of Nick's endless run of dates. A good joke about the Millennium dome, that was a joke in itself.

Daisy Donovan is a joy as Ben's hopeless assistant Brigitte, her delivery is always spot on, her character would have been a great match up for Nick.

Good fun, 6/10.

Death Takes a Policy

[studioAT · 4/10 · 31 January 2022]

This is not a bad episode of the show, it's just the weakest in an otherwise stellar S1.

The plot is a bit thin, and although it does allow for some nice Ben/Nick moments it never really grabbed me.

Bridgette is great fun though, and it's a shame she never made it through to S2.

Janey and the water bra prompted a nice scene with some depth too.

So on the whole good, but not up there with the best of S1 or the show in general.