![]() I certainly hope so as the performances, perhaps needless to say with such a talented cast, were wonderful. It's early days, though, and it could be that Brand, Banks and co-writer Will Smith are softening us up for some comedy with a real emotional punch, glimpses of which we saw only very late in the first episode, when Rose came into contact with an old flame, whose family is now mired in ill health and drug abuse. The writers certainly nailed the irritations of office life - broken lifts and out-of-order loos, incomprehensible phone systems and smelly communal fridges - but there was very little in the way of social commentary or bittersweet comedy. The people staffing this department alongside Brand and Alan Davies as caring and care-worn social workers Rose and Al would be recognisable in any workplace Ingrid, telling everyone about her upcoming hysterectomy, ditzy temp Nat ( Isy Suttie) - "they call us interim workers now" - well-meaning busybody Martin ( Kevin Eldon) office snitch Nitin ( Himesh Patel) and manager Denise ( Georgie Glen), fluent in management-speak, as she has been "tasked with" creating "streamlined cluster teams".Īdd to the mix Aisling Bea's single mother, who has a stalkery crush on Al, and Rose's waste-of-space ex ( Nick Hancock), and there are any number of permutations to be worked. Storyline: The Damned United (2009) Taking over Englands top football club Leeds United, previously successful manager Brian Cloughs abrasive approach and his clear dislike of. ![]() Request or report via Forums here : M4u Forums. View full episodes of every season of TV shows and watch films you missed watching. Starring: Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington. When her trouble-making sister unexpectedly comes to. Storyline: The vampire Djuna resists the advances of Paolo, but soon gives in to their passion. ![]() The opener was essentially an office comedy, with the social services aspect merely a faint hum in the background. Watch series and movies online free on ProjectFreeTv. Starring: Joséphine de La Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis. Damned is the third comedy drama in what could be termed Jo Brand's social/healthcare triptych (after Getting On, set in a geriatric hospital ward, and Going Forward, in which she appeared as care-home worker) Damned, in which she also stars, is set in a child protection social services unit.Ĭo-created with Morwenna Banks (who appears as co-worker Ingrid), Damned follows in Getting On and Going Forward's tracks by being low-key, dark-humoured and full of throwaway lines, but - on the evidence of last-night's opening episode (of six), has yet to reach the former's superb heights of pathos and bathos. ![]()
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