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Great DVD set - arrived in excellent condition. At Home with the Braithwaites is one of the best series I've seen - hilarious, poignant and clever, penned of course by the hugely talented Sally Wainwright.
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Many years since we watched the series on tv but we laughed out heads off watching these again
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Probably among the best comedy dramas of the last 10-15 years, the first series of At Home With The Braithwaites sees 40 year old mother of three Alison Braithwaite (Amanda Redman) winning £38 million on the then-fictional Euro Lottery, with a ticket purchased by her youngest daughter, Charlotte (Keeley Fawcett) and not telling her downtrodden, philandering husband, David (Peter Davison) or her other two daughters, Virginia and Sarah (Sarah Smart and Sarah Churm) while she sets up her own philanthropic organisation to "help people" despite having no previous business experience. That's the basic outline of a story that becomes progressively more outrageous, ridiculous, hilarious and gripping with each new twist in the increasingly bizarre lives of a seemingly normal suburban family from Leeds. The first series is arguably the best of the four series produced and was first shown in 2000. The performances of all the main characters, featuring such well-known names as Amanda Redman, Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham, Sylvia Syms, Julie Graham, Kevin Doyle, Ishia Bennison and Garry Cooper, are superb, but it's the introduction of relatively unknown faces which makes things so interesting. The standout performance of the first series has to be that of Sarah Smart, playing the lesbian eldest daughter with a level of authenticity and conviction that is remarkable and, at times, emotionally moving, tremendously funny and charmingly irreverant, all at once. I would recommend anyone watch the first series of At Home With The Braithwaites just for Sarah Smart's brilliant performance alone, but the other performances of all the main characters, including the young Keeley Fawcett, Sarah Churm, Lucy Whelan, Damian Zuk and Jonathan Le Billon, not to mention all the well-known actors and actresses in the cast, make it a truly outstanding series and one that can be watched again and again, without the viewer's enjoyment becoming even slightly diminished at all.Read full review
The complete first series of ITV's comedy drama comes to DVD for the first time. The Braithwaites are a dysfunctional family who live in Leeds and comprise mother Alison (Redman), father David (Davison) and their three daughters Virginia, Sarah and Charlottle. The story begins with Charlotte giving her mother a Euro Lottery ticket for her birthday and subsequently scooping a £38 million jackpot. However Alison decides to keep the win a secret from her family and sets up a charity - the Jane Crowther Trust - with her friends Marion and Pauline. However as events take a turn for the worse for the other family members, it soon becomes clear that the beneficiaries from Alison charity are not the only ones in need of
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