[pressgang] Episode 5: A Night In

[Laura Nunn]

I was really looking forward to watching this with my eldest; it's one of
my favourite episodes from S1.

I felt:

- The Spike/Lynda banter seemed harsher than I remembered - properly
unpleasant. But then it becomes clear that Lynda is on edge from being
dumped so makes a bit more sense
- Already getting the sense that Spike is more of a people person than
Lynda - from actually caring about Sarah's wellbeing last week, to being
the bigger person and turning up for late duty this week
- Spike's show of temper - throwing papers to the floor - was brushed over
a little bit; that would be a red flag these days!
- Totally agreed with others - had to have an awkward conversation with my
9 year old about "apologising is what my dad things your wife does if you
hit her enough" - explained it was supposed to be a joke, but it's not
funny and it's really serious if that happens. (Blah, blah, insert
effective parenting here.)
- I wondered why late duty was necessary and what they were actually
supposed to achieve as they ostensibly did nothing
- Also the "Lynda's eyes are sweating" line from Tiddler - a weird
editorial touch to show Lynda quite clearly *not* crying/teary.


Eldest child:

- Loved, loved, loved Colin in his bunny suit
- Ditto spotting more Pings in Tiddler's earrings and Colin's bunny suit
- She was actually rolling around with laughter at the end credits when
Julie has seen a pink bunny that talks to her

Laura


On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 at 20:10, Katarina Hjärpe <katarina.hjarpe at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Den lör 19 feb. 2022 kl 08:48 skrev Dipskit Comedy <
> dipskitcomedy at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Vince/all
>>
>> I never really liked the dinner eating competition Lynda has with Spike.
>> It seems too unreasonable even for her. I guess she’s dealing with
>> realising she was dumped though,
>>
>
> IDK, I've had students who went off on eating competitions just on a whim,
> so it doesn't seem unreasonable to me! One kid ate 18 peperoncini in a row.
>
> Katta
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