A bit late to the party here as I’ve just finished watching. But OMG agree with pp that it was embarrassingly ridiculous. I mean I know it’s tv but some parts were just ridiculous- No way would someone wander off to the bathroom and have a completely pointless shag like that at a dinner party.
Likewise good looking hot bodied guy wouldn’t pay very nice but extremely ordinary physio for sex; he’d have no problem finding a fuck buddy, preferably someone he won’t bump into at the school gates.
It was like the writer wanted to cram every conceivable issue in... affairs, porn, rape, women who are unfulfilled in their work life, bored rich housewife, camp bakery guy, fabricated illness, addiction, teenage runaway.... it would have been far better to have fewer issues more subtlety done.
And the ending- it was just so crass- obvious the writer wanted one woman happy ever after, one woman completely written off and one not yet sorted but getting there.
Agree that the children were the best actors in it
And maybe I’m imagining this but at one point in the past Anna Friel seemed quite well regarded and on her way to being an A lister. What’s happened? She’s become completely wooden, has two expressions only (anxious/preoccupied and very anxious/ preoccupied) Also seems to have had some dodgy lip work done.
Can’t quite believe I’ve watched it really (though to be fair I multitasked all the way through, no way could I have given it 6 full hours of my life.)