Just watched this for the second time.

Brilliant. Brilliant writing. Brilliant performances.

Jessica Hynes is particularly brilliant.

They do dowdy housewives turning mean perfectly:
"How about a shit toastie? Eat it!"

"I have flashback... my family rape"
"Oh do they? Oh dear"

This is true.

Best comedy actress by a mile. Wish she'd do more stuff like this.

Just finished watching this. Agree, it's brilliant. I wish Julia David would more stuff like Human Remains, or work more with Rob Brydon.

i loved her in nighty night, well the first series anyway, the second one got a bit slapstick in parts for me. have to give this one a look later.

In purely acting terms Jessica Hynes is the real star of this. Check her facial expressions when she plays the teen alone. Julia Davis has a tendency to get a little too cartoonish in her acting (check second series of nighty night for proof), and it doesn't always bode well with the subject matter she's dealing with.

yeah, jessica hynes' teenage character was superb