Screenplay:
Nigel WilliamsCinematography:
John KenwayComposer:
Rob LaneCast:
Hugh Laurie, Anna Chancellor, Sheila Hancock, Peter Capaldi, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Fry, Clive Mantle, Ben Willbond, Phillip Manikum, Siobhan Hewlett (more)Episodes(6)
Plots(1)
How do you know when you're having a midlife crisis? Maybe it's when you can't remember exactly where your wife works - or whether she works at all. Or when your children have a more active sex life than you do. Or maybe it's when you start to hear the unspoken thoughts inside other people's heads.
Hugh Laurie stars as Paul Slippery, an anxiety-ridden British doctor suffering from all those symptoms and more. His wife (Anna Chancellor) has embarked on a new career and perhaps an extramarital affair or two. His three oversexed sons mock him without mercy. And at work he's tangled in red tape and tormented by a flaky colleague.
(official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (2)
A series that doesn't rely on avalanches of jokes and continuous volleys of laughter, but tries to be as believable and human as possible. Hugh Laurie's confused hero has to win everyone over, but Anna Chancellor, their three serial children and, of course, the winking and never-failing Stephen Fry are also very entertaining. I also give four and a half stars for the approach of the authors and the reasonable number of episodes - six hour-long episodes are just enough to keep the ideas fresh and not threaten their repetition.
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Each forty-five minute episode has the material for a very funny twenty-minute Britcom. It’s a shame that the quality material is drowned in ballast which, at best, is averagely nondescript and, at worst, exceedingly embarrassing in toilet humor style (a sad example of this is the minutes-long to endless running “joke" about hemorrhoids and the Dutch doctor). Luckily, the actors come to the rescue and the overall impression is considerably improved by the two final episodes where it is exactly how it should have been from the very start - focused on characters, emotionally functional and convincing and also pleasant, poignant and funny.
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