dinnerladies (TV Series) Scandal (1998) User Reviews

Where's my Clint?

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 17 April 2020]

The canteen brace themselves for a docu soap, and Petula is engaged to a spotty youth, Clint.

I thought the first two episodes were great, but this was the one that got me hooked, it's an absolute classic. The quality of the script is amazing, but the one liners and acting are just phenomenal. So many great scenes, the one in particular where Petula wanders in wearing a filthy blanket and breaks wind, it's a scream.

Julie Walters steals the show as Petula, she gets some outrageous scenes, and incredible one liners. It's hard to believe someone so glamorous could look to grim. Look out for a young Kenny Doughty who looks almost unrecognisable.

Fabulous, 9/10.

"You wouldn't fit under a bus"

[ygwerin1 · 8/10 · 30 August 2020]

Splendid workmates badinage with particularly witty banter, between Dolly and Jean.

I really don't know how Victoria Wood managed to get away with some of the dialogue, especially in a peak time family favourite comedy show.

A Film crew arrive in the company to make a workplace fly on the way Documentary, as if Tony didn't have enough to cope with his assorted Dinnerladies.

Brens mum Petula popped by with a hapless young bloke Clint in tow, looking to park her caravan 'by the bins'.

Clints mum turned up creating hell threatening to chain herself, to the firms railings until Petula showed herself.

To hope to be able to break through the empass Carmel from Northern Roundup, is called in hopefully to be able to mediate.