With all the good US stuff on hiatus, I'm being forced to get my drama kicks from the current crop of British series. Proving rather more enjoyable than expected is ITV1's Time of Your Life, a curious mish-mash of Cold Feet, Cutting It and As If.
The whole 'waking up from a coma after 18 years' thing is little more than a macguffin to hang a load of tangled relationship plots on. Kate's been out cold for yonks, her best friend is now a watered down version of Anna from This Life, her boyfriend's engaged to someone half his age, her other friends are an unfulfilled housewife and a sexually confused nurse, her parents are on the brink of divorce, while one of her pals died on the night of the coma-inducing incident. This last plot thread offers a little bit of Twin Peaks-style intrigue which will be slowly drip-fed to us over the next few weeks.
It's all pretty entertaining stuff, and far better than you'd expect for Monday night ITV1. What with this and Debbie Horsefield's follow up to Cutting It, True Dare Kiss, coming up later in the week, perhaps I can finally be weened off the American stuff. But that's highly unlikely.
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