David Morrissey and Aimee Lou Wood play a father and daughter thrown back together by misfortune.
The odd couple sitcom gets a spiky and surprisingly heartfelt update in this six-part British comedy where an up-against-it daughter and her newly dumped father are forced by necessity to cobble together a new life – for better or worse, they’re all each other has. Mostly it’s worse. Created by stand-up comic andis an unusually perceptive comedy. It’s sometimes cringeworthy, often amusing, but at all times rooted in the very real circumstances governing its protagonists.
Her only option is her dad, Malcolm , whose savings have been cleaned out by his domineering wife. A sad sack living in a bedsit that serves as a halfway house for single men, Malcolm has been happily subservient, leaving him short of life skills. “Your mum had a system,” he tells Gemma when she points out that he never turns the lights off. A warehouse clerk, Malcolm probably can’t take care of himself, but when Gemma needs a new flatmate to avoid being evicted he’s the only option.
The idea that a pregnant daughter is stuck raising her father is rich in comic exasperation, and Ward takes it to an absurd degree. When Gemma tells Malcolm that he should never use his jumper to clean up spilt bin juice, he nods with serious intent and then takes off his trousers and uses them instead. But the silliness is always underpinned by the recognition that the safety net for this chaotic family is genuinely thin. If they mess up too much, then dire circumstances loom.
There’s a great wedge of supporting cast idiocy from Malcolm’s former bedsit neighbour Derek , who is charging with delusional zeal through every incarnation of idiot bro he can find. “Are you my appendix,” he asks a woman during his pick-up artist phase, “because I don’t know what you do, but I feel like I should take you out.” One of the story’s subtle, enduring strands is Gemma realising that she needs to wean her father off Derek’s misogynistic pronouncements.
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