Carmel Curtin hopes to discover why her massive weight loss has failed to reignite husband Brendan's sex drive and high-flyers Graeme and Moya de Paor-Cullen talk about why their parenting skills have landed them in court.
Sex, parenthood, trust, money, fear, ambition, food, negligence, disappointment and fidelity are just some of the issues that raise their head.
Bergin agrees "It’s very rare that there aren’t obstacles, but it didn’t feel like a hard road because in the beginning we were just playing around to see if we could bring our ideas to fruition.
Our comfort in performing together definitely helped during that phase; the way things are done sometimes, if there had been more people involved the idea would have been pulled apart before it was fully formed but we were able to take our time and bring these couples to life.
The dialogue is studded with elaborate social detail but the performances steal the show: one character’s reaction is just as important as the lines delivered by the other.
Here, Bergin and Cooke succeed in mining comedic gold from an often over-looked universal truth: people take proprietorial pride in their partners, even those they wish would become ex-partners.
[8] In the RTÉ Guide Michael Doherty described the series as "observational humour of the highest quality",[9] while Pat Stacey in The Evening Herald called it "a very satisfying maiden voyage into uncharted and, in terms of Irish television's track record, notoriously treacherous waters for the commercial channel.