Friday Night Dinner

2010s British tv sitcom

Jonny and Adam visit their parents every Friday for a family dinner. None of those evenings ends the way you would expect to.

Jonny and Adam visit their parents, Jackie and Martin, every Friday for a family dinner. It is their tradition, as a Jewish family, to be together and eat the dinner. The problem is they hardly ever have a chance to eat in peace - either some other family member or eccentric neighbour Jim break the balance or simply ruin everything. But to be fair, Martin is as bad in doing things the normal way as any of the intruders during their Friday dinners.

Friday Night Dinner was in a way controversial sitcom - there are people, who absolutely loved the show and find it a masterpiece, but also the nature of the show put off a lot of viewers. On one hand Friday Night Dinner has its own style, has its own atmosphere of a family dinner going wrong, often due to introduction of some eccentric character. However there is another side to the show - childish and outlandish nature of the events, jokes that can be spotted miles away, predictable and repetitive plots, one-dimensional characters and often just assuming that prolongation of embarrassing moments will somehow make them funny.

Is it a bad show? No. Is it a masterpiece? No. It is one of those shows that you either love or quit after few minutes and never think of it again. Friday Night Dinner, if anything, is consistent, each episode will provide you with the same things you have seen in the last one, so it is easy to determine if you like it or not. If you are entertained by two people putting salt in each other’s water out of spite, then you will be entertained in pretty much every episode.

Rating	4.4
Funny	4 / 10
Entertaining	3 / 5
Characters	3 / 5
Nonrepetitive	1 / 5