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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 158994" data-attributes="member: 23">...And Mother Makes Three has come to an end. Kind of. It's segued into...<img src="https://www.platekompaniet.no/globalassets/imported-images/dvd/2001228715.jpg?preset=ProductPage" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Really, though, it's hard to say where one ended and the other began. The AMM5 format was established in the last series of AMM3, in which Sally and David married. The soapiness of the continuing story was enjoyable. Now that the new status quo is established, the series has reverted to more workaday sitcom situations. All of which means the "new" series feels somewhat less fresh than it could. There have been a couple of recasts. One being David's mother in the final episode of AMM3. She was followed by David's daughter for the launch of the new series. Maxine Gordon now plays Jane. I do miss Miriam Mann who embodied the spoilt only child quite well, with her nose permanently in the air and an air of self-assured superiority that could have made life interesting in the household. Gordon's Jane is more compliant and less demanding which is nice for the characters she lives with, but also rather underwhelming. The cultural and social outlook of the time continues to fascinate when it crops up. Like David's expectation that Sally should stop working to become a full-time wife and mother. The fact that Sally did as requested has added to the series' more generic tone. The main purpose from the writers' point of view seemed to be to give Auntie somewhere to be, since Sally suggested Auntie to replace her at the bookshop, and Auntie seems perfectly efficient at her new job. Which seems like a losing situation to me. Sally's ditzy approach to her work paired with working alongside her husband would seem to have more comic potential to me. And having Auntie still keeping house could have kept at least a little of the unconventional family setup that made AMM3 so different.  That's not to say AMM5 isn't enjoyable or funny. It's both. The first two episodes have seen a botched caravan holiday and a pregnancy scare, with misunderstandings abounding for both. It remains to be seen if the revamped series will hold my interest (and it may be worth noting that my viewing pace has slowed down considerably over the last couple of episodes).</blockquote>

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