Anyone been watching the return of Cold Feet ? I am always dubious about going back, but 2 episodes in, I’m really enjoying it. I think Hermione Norris has been the star of it so far, her expression and reaction on opening her daughter’s bedroom door was very funny.
Cold Feet – the return.
Loving it too. When Pete fell apart at the end and just burst into tears was also very moving.
Lots of subtle humour and you just know there are going to be several twists and turns along the way. Great scriptwriting.
I haven’t seen the second one yet but enjoyed the first. My only quibble is that every scene felt like a trailer – fast cuts to people already in the middle of conversations. I liked it enough to carry on watching.
It is excellent – the cast are obviously having a ball. Fay Ripley…if you ever leave, give me a call….
I never saw the original but see that it is relatively cheap for the whole lot on iTunes….
Worth exploring ? And why ?
Yes.
Excellent scripts, well acted, wit, believable yet flawed characters who you can identify with. It’s a shame two of them have to support Man Utd, but as I said, flawed.
Only seen Ep1 so far – absolutely loved it. Very deft and funny writing, and spot-on performances all-round.
Shame that there’s no Rachel *sigh*, but Adam’s landlady-neighbour is a fantastic proxy.
Really looking forward to catching up with Ep2 this evening.
My guess is the landlady-neighbour is going to be a love interest but its all going to go Pete Tong that’s a racing certainty.
Obvs.
I’m here if she needs me.
It’s got James Nesbitt in it. Why would I want to watch it?
He’s had his eyebrow done, and he’s dialled-down his Nesbittism.
A bitt.
I’d feared the worst for the return and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the opening episode. However, I thought the second episode, sadly, lapsed into the slovenly habits of the last couple of seasons of the original series, which got very flabby.
For example, when Jen gets home late to find Adam answering the door, wouldn’t she surely have feared the worst [not least through guilt that she’d been out flirting], even more so on finding all the lights out? Surely she would have said to Adam, “Is everything all right?” At the very least, she would have said to Pete, when he started blubbing, “What’s wrong? What’s happened?”
Still, she’d obviously read the plot in advance [the character, not the actress], because she didn’t need to ask such questions.
Lazy not-thought-through script-mapping, I’m afraid.
Still enjoyable, though. They do the caper stuff better than the huggy stuff. Robert Bathurst does a great line in weak/hapless-but-ruthless/self-serving.
PS: Maybe I’ve missed something, but what has happened to his son Josh?
Oh dear. Just tried last week’s third episode, but I couldn’t get past the opening five minutes.
You are fast asleep in your bed and are woken at 6am by a persistent banging at your front door and an urgent poking of your doorbell. Do you [a] lie there drowsily moaning “Ooh what can that be?” or [b] leap up in a sweat/panic, worried shitless about why someone is trying to rouse you at that time of day?
The answer is [a], because this is “Cold Feet” and it’s back to the worst of its old bad habits, I’m afraid. It’s shite and it’s off my Sky+ schedule. That’s saved me an hour a week.
Yes, the persistent banging on a front door happens a lot in TV dramas – the person coming to the door answer shouts “all right all right, I’m coming, keep yer hair on” or something like that. Then the door is opened and the person knocking talks quite calmly as if they if they have just rung the doorbell once.