This excellent television comedy series recently finished its 3rd season on BBC1.
Miranda is written by Miranda Hart who also stars in the series. I suppose you could call it semi-autobiographical, it is based on the love life (or lack of) of singleton Miranda.
The object of her desires is Gary the Chef, who works nearby in a small restaurant. It seems that Gary and Miranda went to college together and ever since that time, she has basically lusted after him!
In the first series, we do see Miranda and Gary get together briefly, but sadly things don’t go to plan (do they ever?) and Gary decides to go travelling, leaving Miranda with only his photograph on a cushion for company.
In the second series, they are mainly just friends; but with Miranda ever hopeful that things could blossom from that.
The third series actually sees Miranda get a boyfriend – Mike, a local TV presenter, who first sees her whilst he is filming a piece on obesity! We see Miranda sitting on a park bench eating, whilst the camera pans round and the commentator starts talking about weight problems in women!
Later on, she bumps into him again at a nightclub, and they hit it off. Of course, Miranda is delighted to finally find a man.
Miranda’s best friend is Stevie: a lady with whom she runs their little gift shop. They are rather a strange couple as Stevie can’t be anything more that 4ft tall and Miranda is way over 6 ft. Stevie is always at the receiving end of size jokes, and invariably ends up being knocked over by Miranda as they both scramble to attract the attentions of the next unwitting male to come into the shop.
Another big character in Miranda’s life is her Mum – Penny, played excellently by Patricia Hodge. Penny could be described as ‘a lady who lunches’ and is always keen to get her daughter married off to the most eligible batchelor. Most of whom, Miranda is not the least bit interested in.
The whole series does hark back to the glory days of British comedy, the 1970’s – shows such as Are You Being Served, It Ain’t half hot Mum and a lot of the slap stick has echoes of Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies about it.
I am a great fan of the series, and am very sorry to see that it has now ended it’s run. Not sure if appeals to men in such the same way, but I for one can certainly identify with all the love life woes plus the public gaffs (well some of them at least!)
My score out of 5
Would be 6! Excellent TV programme, great cast, well written and acted. They all clearly had loads of fun filming it.
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