Party Time (first aired BBC1 31.10.2012)

[Katrina]

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[grace]

Such a sad episode. Valerie worked so hard at her party and it was such a flop. The mother mourning her lost son(havent we seen that storyline before?)
Franklyn can be funny but so juvenile most of the time. Loved the comments about Howard`s costume " Are you Ghandi or the statue of Liberty" They really needed Karen there to liven things up. It was certainly the night of the living dead!

[foxadoodle]

I've said this before, but I think Valerie is a character from a Mike Leigh film - a sad, lost soul, halfway between comedy and tragedy. I thought the scene where she tried to seduce Barry (dressed as Satan!) was hilarious, but there were other times I wanted to smash through the TV screen and rescue her. And it looks like she's doing it all over again on Guy Fawkes Night...

And yes, I think they do the mother mourning her lost son about once a week! Though at least they've moved away from stories where the central character turns out to be a ghost - although the other day, it turned out someone was a character in a book, being hallucinated by the author. Though I've given up wondering if we've seen this story before: when a programme is on 5 days a week, of course there will be a lot of repitition, and so long as the episode's fun, I just enjoy the ride.