September 15th, 2008 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Mutual Friends
I am loving the new BBC drama, comedy type show, Mutual Friends. It’s funny in a tongue in cheek kind of way and yet a little bit depressing as a group of friends leave their youth behind and try to cope with their often boring and mundane ‘grown up’ lives.
In this weeks episode we follow Martin and Jen on their quest for a baby. Kind of a strange decision given that just two weeks ago they were seperated due to Jen’s affair with Martin’s dead best friend!
Watch the rest of the episode tomorrow night at 9pm on BBC One.
Having never been a fan of Cold Feet, I don’t intend to make comparisons between Mutual Friends and that Jimmy Nesbitt vehicle.
For my part, the opening episode of BBC One’s Mutual Friends was more like a Richard Curtis movie. We had the funeral, and even a wild outburst from Marc Warren to rival Hugh Grant’s stock ‘Four Weddings’ performance.
Mutual Friends is a new six-part comedy drama series for BBC One, launching on BBC One tonight at 9.00pm.
Martin has two best friends, Patrick and Carl, who couldn’t be more different. One is an irresponsible, unreliable, feckless womaniser, and the other is dead. Guess which one slept with his wife?
Martin Grantham is happily married to Jen. They have a son, Dan, a nice house, the works. One day his best friend Carl throws himself under a train, setting off a disastrous sequence of events that will change Martin’s life forever. Read more & comment »
