I had to buy an all-region DVD player in order to watch this show on PAL discs. It was worth it. I bought the set mainly because Joanna Van Gyseghem was in it after seeing her on the Rumpole series where she played a great witchy (with a capital "B") wife to Guthrie Featherstone. Again, it was worth it. I wondered if she'd play the same role and was pleasantly surprised to see her comedic side. That, and IMO, the fact that she is elegant eye candy.
It doesn't take anyone too long to catch on to the "Bedroom Farce" approach. Once that it established, it's just a matter of sitting back and watching how the actors played the game out.
Two standouts were episodes 3 and 4 in Season 3. "Close Up" had a great, and all too short, scene where Gwen Taylor, sick of all the phony upscale posturing for a TV interview slips into a hilarious North Country accent, beginning with "By goom". "The Go Between" had me almost in tears with Philip Fox's nerdy dead-pan "Neville". His final lines were knee-slappers.
All the cast played their parts to perfection (especially Joanna). This is one of those series that I can watch every six months or so and enjoy it as if it was a Premiere.
It doesn't take anyone too long to catch on to the "Bedroom Farce" approach. Once that it established, it's just a matter of sitting back and watching how the actors played the game out.
Two standouts were episodes 3 and 4 in Season 3. "Close Up" had a great, and all too short, scene where Gwen Taylor, sick of all the phony upscale posturing for a TV interview slips into a hilarious North Country accent, beginning with "By goom". "The Go Between" had me almost in tears with Philip Fox's nerdy dead-pan "Neville". His final lines were knee-slappers.
All the cast played their parts to perfection (especially Joanna). This is one of those series that I can watch every six months or so and enjoy it as if it was a Premiere.