Ok, I'm going to indulge myself here, and ruin what should be a series of 'I eally laughed too' posts:
The premise was very simple and worked ok - four generations of sex mad women, including the great grannie, in arrested development.
Where it fell down, or at least didn't achieve its potential, was that it hit the audience over the head two times too many. The appearance of the mutton-dressed-as-lamb mother would have been enough if the script had been developed well.
The appearance of the gran and great gran wasn't well handled because (I imagine) there were two other female actors who had to be included. Neither of them looked old enough for the parts they were asked to play, namely 50+ and 70+ year-old women, though this being council house Scotland, you could knock ten years off those ages, but I'm using the girl's mother as my yardstick.
It would have been much better to have used a real little old lady for the great-grandmother and given the venerable old dear some filthy lines or at least some killer double entendres.
Either that or have the actress playing that part really done up well in a brilliant prosthetic body like Bubbles De Vere in Little Britain or Patsy in Ab Fab when she plays herself as an old lady - stooped back and all.
And my final Simon Cowell point is - the boyfriend simply wasn't good looking enough!
If he'd had the look of a young Rock Hudson, I could buy all these women throwing themselves at him, but he was a bit ordinary.
Oh all right, I laughed. The bits that really 'got' me were when you could see the next woman coming down the stairs. I suppose it was particularly funny to me because my family (god bless our working class scum genes) actually does live on that estate, and without naming names, I recognise those women.
