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A comedy drama which revolves around a group of friends who meet at a book group with the intention of making new friends as well as reading a few books. Unfortunately it doesn't quite work out that way...
Episode 1 - On the Road
Clare's book group starts to assemble. She meets Kenny, a handsome guy in a wheelchair who wants to be a writer; Janice, the frustrated wife of a Scottish footballer; and eccentric student Barney, to whom Clare is strangely attracted...
Episode 2 - The Alchemist
Kenny has an admirer at the leisure centre where he works, but does she know he's in a wheelchair? Meanwhile, Fist decides to follow some advice from this week's book - and leave her husband...
Episode 3 - Magical Realism
Kenny is writing a book in which a beautiful woman who looks a lot like Fist shares a cabin in the hills with him. Clare is also writing a book, in which a handsome professor who looks a lot like Barney falls in love with his student, a lovely American woman not unlike Clare.
Episode 4 - Bedtime Stories
Clare discovers Barney's on drugs, and decides it's her mission in life to save him. Meanwhile, Janice sleeps with the famous thriller writer, Martin Logan, and can't wait to go to confession to tell her priest, a big fan of the author.
Episode 5 - Dark Alley
Janice is hosting the book group and having an affair with Martin Logan, the author of this week's book. Martin doesn't want to join the group so he sits upstairs. And listens...
Episode 6 - A Little More Living
Barney has died of an overdose. His brother Lachlan arrives to tell Clare - and there is an instant spark between them. Meanwhile, Kenny's literary fantasies intrigue Fist and Dirka - but can he deliver in the flesh?
Episode 1 - On the Road
Clare's book group starts to assemble. She meets Kenny, a handsome guy in a wheelchair who wants to be a writer; Janice, the frustrated wife of a Scottish footballer; and eccentric student Barney, to whom Clare is strangely attracted...
Episode 2 - The Alchemist
Kenny has an admirer at the leisure centre where he works, but does she know he's in a wheelchair? Meanwhile, Fist decides to follow some advice from this week's book - and leave her husband...
Episode 3 - Magical Realism
Kenny is writing a book in which a beautiful woman who looks a lot like Fist shares a cabin in the hills with him. Clare is also writing a book, in which a handsome professor who looks a lot like Barney falls in love with his student, a lovely American woman not unlike Clare.
Episode 4 - Bedtime Stories
Clare discovers Barney's on drugs, and decides it's her mission in life to save him. Meanwhile, Janice sleeps with the famous thriller writer, Martin Logan, and can't wait to go to confession to tell her priest, a big fan of the author.
Episode 5 - Dark Alley
Janice is hosting the book group and having an affair with Martin Logan, the author of this week's book. Martin doesn't want to join the group so he sits upstairs. And listens...
Episode 6 - A Little More Living
Barney has died of an overdose. His brother Lachlan arrives to tell Clare - and there is an instant spark between them. Meanwhile, Kenny's literary fantasies intrigue Fist and Dirka - but can he deliver in the flesh?
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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This quirky series is a lot of fun. Intense, humourless, lonely Clare starts a book group which turns out to be an odd assortment of characters - three footballers' wives, a disabled ex-mountaineer, eccentric perpetual student Barney, a Glasgow 'wee bauchle' who is there only because of the football connection - an ill-assorted mix, but their interaction is most amusing and entertaining, particularly, for example, when 'The Little Engine Who Could' is chosen as book of the week. The series is fresh and original, with black humour, very witty writing and a sense of the absurd intermixed. It's well worth a look.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This one went under the radar for a lot of people, but I strongly recommend it. It's more like an extremely intelligent and well-written soap opera - it's all about the characters, and the book group is an ingenious device to throw this disparate lot together. And there are some nice twists. The alpha male character (Kenny) is disabled. Two are displaced European footballers' wives who have followed their husbands to Glasgow. Less concerned with literature and more with sex and frustrations of unfulfilled lives. Michelle Gomez (who was the best thing by far in "Green Wing") is brilliant as Janice. Dark and funny.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Great to see this again. What a cast of misfits, thrown together by an advert to start a book group. None of the members is as interested in the books as they are in each other, and in who is getting together with whom... There are some pretty graphic sex scenes, gay and straight, not one to watch with children around. Watch the extra features and be amazed by how different the actors are when not in character. Superb.
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A TV Diamond
This is a little jewel of show. I don't know if it's comedy-drama or drama
comedy but don't expect Curb/The Office kind of humour or anything broad. Read more
comedy but don't expect Curb/The Office kind of humour or anything broad. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Brim
Superb
Watched this religeously when on TV but had forgotten just how clever the script was. Though set in Scotland, it addresses wider social issues in an entertaining and amusing... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Capital Man
Unusually, modern British television drama I really like!
Very unusually, a British television drama from recent years that I really like!
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Published 23 months ago by Legal Vampire
Unbearable
Sorry, but I could hardly bear to watch Series 2 until the end. I already hated Series 1 - one of the worst series I have ever watched. Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2010 by A. M. EDER
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Original and inventive.
I loved the Book Group when it was on telly. It has just the right mix - hilariously funny sometimes, and makes you cringe others. Read more
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