Friday Night Dinner (TV Series) The Anniversary (2014) User Reviews

An episode to celebrate.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 29 January 2021]

Jackie and Martin celebrate their anniversary, and invite the boys around for dinner, but naturally Friday night dinner is crashed.

Where to even begin, this was hilarious from start to finish. The format of the show seems to have changed somewhat, and that's no bad thing by any means, this felt like an episode from the earliest series.

The boys are squabbling and fighting, Jim is behaving utterly outrageously, and dinner, which shockingly isn't a roast is ruined.

The tattoo is funny, the painting is hilarious, and a dreamy Jim steals the show. Plenty of cringe laugh, and inappropriate moments.

Hilarious, 9/10.

A bit too far.

[jcrawley-12178 · 6/10 · 21 March 2022]

I feel there are a few episodes of this show that just go a little too far, and get a little too silly or ridiculous. This was one of those episodes. The first half was solid, with the hideous painting making me laugh out loud, Jim being drugged is where things started going downhill a bit.

The family being locked in a small room together could've and should've been an episode in its own right. That had so much potential, but it was just so brief here, like it was tacked on as an afterthought.

The conclusion of this episode was really where it felt like the episode was trying too hard to be funny or over the top. SPOILERS: Jim peeing on the painting just plain and simple wasn't funny. Although toilet humour does fairly often feature in this show, it just didn't land here.

This episode wasn't terrible, but it just fell a bit flat. It felt at times it was trying too hard. 6/10.