Friday Night Dinner: Season 2
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If you’ve never seen Friday Night Dinner before, lucky you: you are in for a treat.
Robert Popper’s sitcom has a laughably simple premise. A middle aged married Jewish couple Martin and Jackie Goodman (Paul Ritter and sitcom veteran Tamsin Greig) are joined every Friday evening for dinner by their two twentysomething sons Adam and Jonny (Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal).
That’s really all there is to it. And it’s hilarious.
Much of the humour comes from the silliness of the two sons who in the first episode find themselves engaged in a virtual house civil war over Adam’s childhood toy bunny “Buggy”. The duo later engage in a further feud when it emerges Jonny is having an affair with an older woman at his work.
Yet juvenile though they are, the Goodman sons are at least still on Planet Earth. The funniest characters…
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