"This Life" 30 years on

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Anyone looking forward to this being re shown next week?

I was 17 when it came out. I think it prompted me to go to uni and get a profession so I could live in a share house.

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Brilliant last scene at Miles’ wedding but on the rewatch I thought exactly the same as first time round, Rachel would not of been there! She was someone Miles flirted with a bit and irrelevant to bride and groom. Kiera was more likely to get an invite in her own right (rather than Joe’s plus one) than Rachel!

Finally got to the S1 finale (I’m watching at 90s pace, no binging for me) - what a great messy end for the season! Warren’s awful brother storming out, Millie seeming to draw back from the affair, Egg actually making an effort for his relationship, Anna and Miles stealing away together. You can feel S2’s momentum building up already.

Question for anyone still following the thread - why is there so much horror over Millie/O’Donnell, but hardly anything over Anna/Egg’s dad? The latter is far squickier (poor Egg!), but there’s been barely a peep about it. DH and I were realising it would be like one of us going to visit our kids right now and copping off with one of their peers. I cringed so hard thinking about it I nearly fell off the sofa.

I was thinking the same, God knows how he even qualified!

That was gross too but I guess the difference was that Egg's dad wasn't in a position of power over Anna.

Also Egg's Dad had split up with his wife and Anna was single.

It’s hard to believe that he did any the course, he seemed to have no awareness of what being lawyer would be like!

Anna and the dad were single ( ish ) Eggs dad was probably just getting a bit of revenge on Egg’s mum!
It was icky though.

Agree that how Egg got his degree was a mystery!
He was clever, but it’s odd he didn’t realize how being a lawyer might be as an actual job during that time!!

I agree, not that she wouldn’t have shagged a dad - but that she wouldn’t have shagged that dad.

Interestingly, Daniela Nardini has since said that she was certain Anna would have shagged a dad; but one who was a bit more Harrison Ford and a bit less Baldrick (no offence to either actor).

I think the creators would have happily had another series but the bbc was too slow to commission so there was no way of keeping or getting all the actors available for flumpence.

Just found this thread!

I wasn't old enough to watch it in the 90s but the repeats before the +10 episode were on late at night when I was at uni so I watched them then. I had the DVDs but don't have anything to play them on anymore so haven't seen it in a few years.

It hasn't aged too well but I still love it, still love Egg (even though he is a man child), still "would" with Andrew Lincoln (I discovered him in Teachers in the early 2000s - he's basically Egg but a teacher) and still haven't forgiven Milly.