ry_detroi2 One of the best comedys I've seen in a long time! It's not often I actually laugh out loud when watching a show, but this has had me in stitches! Definitely going to be rewatching again and again!

alissabonnett I have yet to laugh at Friday Night Dinner, and I have watched every episode of every series due to my family liking it, and my friends having commended it to me. I will never trust either of them again, and am, frankly, considering removing them from my life. To enjoy such a predictable and disgustingly bland piece of childishness is a bad reflection on the psyche. The main reason that makes Friday Night Dinner fails for me is the reoccurring theme in each episode, and that is the character of Mark Heap, playing as 'Jim', the wacky and suspicious character next door. Heap has played the same character in everything I've seen him in. It was hilarious in Spaced. It did the job in Green Wing. In Friday Night Dinner, it's a headache and seems incongruous with the rest of the characters. I understand that it's difficult to form a full series with only a small family- but introducing one character who more or less does the same odd behaviours, is not the answer. In general, the comedy is your typical 'family' sort: it's like watching the Simpsons. You don't laugh at it, but it's suitable for the kids, and maybe they'll be entertained by it. If they've not developed full self-awareness yet. The interactions are generally limited. You have the mother and father. The father, Martin, does something unacceptable, and the mother, Jackie, reacts with aggression or frustration. Relatable. Then you have the two brothers, who prank and tease and fight each other as typical brothers do. But the actions are repetitive, and the chemistry is non-existent. If it's supposed to make people with siblings smile, punch each other on the arm and go 'That's us!', it fails. You never get the impression that anybody likes anyone else in the series. It's all superficial.There's much more to discuss, but as this is a comedy series, and on comedy it royally, embarrassingly, irretrievably fails, anyone reading this can be assured that Friday Night Dinner lets down the expectations of well-regarded UK sitcoms (if you can even call it that). As I write, the latest episode is blaring in my ears. I've not once switched the tabs to view the visual plot, but, of course, it will be the same plot as it is in all the other episodes. A true disgrace to the imagination.

leerevell-21957 I have only recently starting watching this show on catch up on channel 4 and I have to say I have never laughed so much in my life. I go to bed still chuckling to myself. It is so well written, all the actors have perfect timing and despite some of it is predictable and you know what is coming you still fall about laughing. I have to keep re watching bits because I laugh so much I start crying. Can't wait for series 5.Majority of British comedy now is just not funny the way it used to be, this program however is fantastic!

jazzy-925-437582 This show is, I say again,absolute Class. The writing of this show is pristine, very life like yet still funny. Paul Ritter - Martin is the funniest character on TV, so dopey and grubby. The fact that he's deaf makes it funnier because he always mistakes what people are saying, and he just does silly things. Jim is also oddly hilarious. In every episode he pops up to the house, and is very unintelligent. His approach is just hilarious. The two Boys are like two young kids, calling each other names and playing pranks, but this works well for the show, and the mother is very motherly, but joins in with the banter also.Comedies like these don't come often.