"This Life" 30 years on

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Anyone looking forward to this being re shown next week?

Very weird thing about Millie - the only other thing I ever saw her in was a set of training videos I had to watch when I started working at the BBC in 2012. She was playing a lawyer, explaining all the legal things we needed to consider when making programmes.

I mean, it had to be an in-joke?

I loved the way it was so glaringly obvious O'Donnell was a complete philanderer, had no intention of leaving his wife and had unsuccessfully tried it on with Rachel on the Paris trip, but super-intelligent Milly was blind to this.

Ahh i graduated and moved to London around the time off This Life and everyone I told said "Ooh it'll be just like This Life!".

And it sort of was tbh!

Great show though, sort of weird that Daniela Nardini and the actress who played Millie disappeared a bit. Ramon Tikaram though!! 😍

O'Donnell was so unsexy. But Egg is a warning to all men - if you're a perpetual man child your woman will run into the arms of any competent adult, even a slimy beanpole with a comb-over.

I've seen Daniella Nardini in the odd thing, but only bit parts. She was in an episode of 'Lewis'.

The actress who played Kira was Tina in Eastenders.

Absolutely loves this but doubt I'll watch it again as seen it so many times.

Daniella Nardini was wonderful in this. I am surprised she wasn’t in more afterwards.

Thanks for letting us know! I loved it and always smile when I see Egg acting another rôle ever since 😊

When it was on in the 90s, I was also living in London in a house share and listening to the same music. I wasn't in law though, but I loved it. Hated Egg- bloody man child. Loved Anna and also wish Daniela Nardini was in more stuff. Jack Davenport was corrrrr! Remember the Caeser cut that was popular around the time? Looking back, it's a shock to see everyone smoking all the time.

I'm the same age as the This Life lot, and the series really captures the feeling of the late 90s for me, I was just starting work too, but it's not really about work so much as the music, what it was like going out back then and so on - it's a real 'time travel' watch for me.

Loved it back when it was on originally.
Egg was gorgeous and still is. I will be watching.

The actor who plays Egg’s dad will forever be Egg’s Dad to me.
Downton farmer? Egg’s Dad.
Nurse Cranes love interest in Call the Midwife? Eggs Dad.
Baddie in Life on Mars? Eggs dad.
Turned on The Archers one day…Eggs dad.
Pops up in all sorts of things.

Steve John Shepherd was so beautiful and I was so pissed that the girl from Grange Hill got him.

Loved Warren, ‘outstanding’

same here, he’s a well respected actor who has had a great career but he’s always Egg’s Dad in our house!

Agree about Egg's dad always being Egg's dad, and see also Warren's brother, who pops up all the time.

I'm exactly their age and I loved it.

We watched it on DVD and loved it so much. The days before phones so loved how life revolved around the pub etc!

I loved Ramon Tikaram in This Life but now I can only see him as Big Arsed Guru in Man Down.

How was Ricky Gervais involved with the soundtrack, please?

He was the music supervisor. His partner Jane Fallon produced This Life.

Oh wow, I didn’t know that re Ricky. I possibly knew about Jane Fallon but had forgotten.

I loved this series so much. The ten year episode was a bit of a letdown, but I was excited to think they’d made a new 30 year anniversary episode, which sadly is not the case.

I shall be rewatching!

Loved This Life. Rewatched it shortly before the pandemic mostly because I was working somewhere that afforded a walk over Southwark Bridge and past their house twice daily. Pointed out it out to a few friends, particularly the roof terrace where Anna shags Egg's dad 😂

Really was a great tv series that very much was of its time. Brilliant music in it too. Doubt it would be made now. Just a shame the follow-up was such an anticlimax.

Going against the grain here.

Never watched This Life in the 1990s, (I have never seen it,) and I decided to give it a go.

I have watched the first episode. Not too impressed so far. I'm finding it hard to stay with it. I'm a bit bored. 😬

I will try a couple more episodes ... If it doesn't do anything for me by the end of episode 3, I won't be watching the other 30 episodes.

Finding it a bit cliched, twee, and predictable at the moment, and none of the characters are likeable IMO. (And as I said, I'm a bit bored.)

I think it took me about 3 episodes to get into it.