WE ARE FAMILY (THIS WAY UP, SERIES 1)
If you haven't been watching Aisling Bea's Channel 4's sitcom 'This Way Up,' you really ought to be. As the show prepares to air its second series, you really need to binge watch the first which brilliantly walks the tightrope between laugh out loud comedy and touching family drama. Bea and Sharon Horgan play Aine and Shona, two Irish sisters living in London whose mum, Sorcha Cusack's Eileen was a weather presenter back home. Their mum found fame in Ireland wearing a different hat on TV every night. In the first episode, Shona is collecting Aine as she checks out of rehab after suffering a nervous breakdown. As Aine says her goodbyes, she and Shona complain the facilities were not up to scratch and certainly not as advertised. Indeed, Aine was expecting more of a spa. For the rest of the first series, Shona behaves like she is Aine's mother, fretting about her sister's whereabouts, her state of mind and tracking her movements on her smartphone. Aine,