Why Friday Night Dinner really should have stayed indoors

Moving the action outside the family’s north London house jolted the show’s gentle surrealism into broader slapstickWhen it arrived in early 2011, Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner felt like a homely hybrid of the era’s biggest comedies. Built on a simple premise – embarrassing parents Jackie and Martin Goodman (Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter), and their embarrassed adult sons Adam and Jonny (Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal) enduring Shabbat dinner together every week &nda