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Two identically-named sisters – each unknown to the other – are the stars of this sharp, touching comedy full of anguish, tears – and Soda Stream tea
It’s been three years since the pilot but The Other One has finally made it to our screens as a series. And it was worth the wait. The show is a comedy about the family Walcott, whose neat and ordered middle-class existence is thrown into uproar when its patriarch Colin dies and it is revealed he had a whole other family Walcott on the council estate across the way.
The first episode picks up where the pilot left off. Cathy is played by Ellie White – eternally Princess Beatrice from The Windsors, but with practice you become able to set that aside for half an hour. She and her mother Tess (Rebecca Front) are the “official” family, still reeling from the news of Colin’s 30-year betrayal. Cathy’s GP fiance Marcus (Amrit Shah, perfect in a potentially unforgiving part) is still trying to make up for sending dick pics (“Just two! But one of them was on burst, so – 16”) to his receptionist. Continue reading...