There's obviously (and that really is obvious, rather than a mystery), more to this than meets the eye. I made it through to the end of the first episode either waiting for something beyond an extraordinarily bad 50's sitcom pastiche and it didn't materialise- all of the tropes, none of the jokes. Not even bad ones.

I have to confess I soon begun to fast forward through the second episode, pausing for snatches to see if the tone was going to alter, some sort of direction was going to emerge, something that would lift it from an astonishingly tiresome affectation of period without much in the way of content.

I really wanted to like this, but if what has happened so far is some sort of extended setup, it's an extremely laboured one. I'm not sure if I can sit through another half an hour of this and can't for the life of me imagine who is enjoying it.

Grim, turgid, witlessly painful stuff so far. I don't think it's just disappointment. Actually if I'd come to this without any expectation I don't think I would have watched more than ten minutes.

I can't give away any spoilers because I can't for the life of me say anything actually happened.

Awful.