I get the feeling there must be a Department for Quirkiness at Sky, because, yet again, another new 'homegrown' series is jam packed with quirky characters that would struggle to survive in ToyTown, let alone the real world. The new show, in question, is Parents, which is billed as a comedy, but I doubt you'll be chuckling very much. It centres around Jenny who loses her high powered, I'm assuming City job, after attacking a co worker and then, handily for the show, has her house repossessed. So, along with her husband Nick, who really, and I do mean really, is the sort of character who only exists in this kind of sitcom, and her two wise and knowing (isn't it always the way) kids move in with her kooky parents in Kettering. Yes, I found the premise rib tickling too.
As mentioned, Parents is set in Kettering but no one, in the show, seems to actually come from Kettering. Jenny's sister appears to hail from Essex, her old school boyfriend from Manchester and Jenny herself sounds like she was born within a Gucci bag throwing distance of Harrods; so, it appears, you can take Kettering out of the girl after all.
The comic situations, in the first two episodes, were almost non existent and the whole thing seems to rely on the moronic ineptitude and haplessness of the bumbling characters. As usual, with these sort of things, Sky have cast it to within an inch of its life. Tom Conti, Susie Blake and Sally Phillips could do this sort of stuff standing on their heads.
So how many more quirky shows will we get from Sky? You can just imagine the Commissioning Editor, sitting behind his desk, yelling: "These shows have just not been quirky, infantile, or pointless enough, get me Noel Fielding!"
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