Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010-)

UK

Television Series

Creators: Beth Kilcoyne, Emma Kilcoyne

Cast: Alfred Molina, Dawn French

Sisters Beth and Emma Kilcoyne’s gently funny, quietly moving, and pleasingly low-key sitcom depicts the first half-hour that the eponymous middle-aged couple spend together each night after they get home from work, listening in on their strange little conversations and rows, gradually building up a picture of their tragedy-tinged life together.

Series 1 (2010)

Still trying to deal with the death of their infant child eighteen years earlier, Roger and Val find the added burden of a parent’s imminent death and problems at work a strain perhaps too far, in this witty, affecting, and relatively subtle first – and possibly last (is there really anywhere to go after this?) – series. Iain.Stott