The Comic Strip Presents : The Hunt For Tony Blair (2011), (strictly speaking a short film rather than a television show as it received a cinema release).

Well made (nice 40's/50's/60's mismatch style pastiche), amusing ideas, well played but lacking in actual laughs, real satirical bite and it's really at least half a decade too late (if not more).

2 Balls.

The Kids Are Alright (2010), the title says it all really.

The two main teens are pretty well balanced, enquiring humans (even if the son is hanging around nutters for answers) and the adults are the screw ups.

Much was made at the time about the lesbian marriage angle of the story at the time of release but to be honest it's just a conceit.

The story could be just as easily be about any other for of absent parent returning.

The problem for me was it didn't have anything narratively interesting to say.

SPOILERS...

It would have worked better for me if the affair hadn't happened but it was incorrectly assumed to have happened by Bening's character.

The film would have played out pretty much the same but the audience would then have a debate about wether Mark Ruffalo's character was wronged or if he really was an interloper at heart.

I would have least have been spared Julianne Moore's stomach churning apology scene.

As it played out I was reminded of the horror of watching The Ice Storm (1997) only not quite as twisted.

3 balls (not sure if that was skewed because of Mr Ruffalo's bits bumping around).