The Delivery Man

While cruising through ACORN we found this gem. What a nice change. Leave it to the British to get a great show. To bad it was only one season. This show made the wife and I laugh almost nonstop. The show was filled with sexual innuendos without being offensive.

Darren Boyd plays Matthew exactly the same as he played Tim in "Spy"...and it's delightful. His deadpan delivery as the only sane man in a hospital labor and delivery ward works really well.

As the only male midwife, and only ex-police officer midwife, in the department, Matthew struggles with the prejudices of his coworkers and the patients. The supporting characters aren't as strong as those in "Spy" and the requisite love interest less interesting, but it's still a funny 22 minutes, enough to make me want to continue immediately to the next episode.

At the time of this writing, there are only six episodes, which are available in the US via Netflix. I found subtitles helpful in understanding the British accents.

I actually enjoyed this show. Not often I come to find shows enjoyable anymore. I am starting to enjoy British shows. Too bad it's only 6 episodes. Sadly I been finding it hard go find shows that I can enjoy. An ex cop becomes a midwife, he is doing a good job.

I really rather liked this. It seemed to hit the ground running which most sitcoms fail miserably at. Darren Boyd is a talented comic actor whom I have always liked especially in Smack the Pony. The rest of the support actors do just that and support him pretty well perfectly. Paddy McGuinness managed to shake off the dreadful gameshow host persona which he employs at times and is adept at delivering his lines. I am not a huge fan of Fay Ripley but she,too, is well employed as the sister in the department who fancies Darren's character something rotten. I laughed quite a lot and look forward to seeing more episodes. Good writing and situations which ring true make The Delivery Man a great new TV series.

Having watched and liked Spy very much the minute I saw this playing on an Emirates flight to London I clicked hoping to see the same quality and boy it did.

Humor is so clever, rapid, subtle and innovative that before I knew it I have already watched all episodes (I think 6) available and barely had time to go through the materials I have for my meeting. In other words no low quality "filling" whatsoever was spotted.

It so good that on the way back next day I watched it all again before even trying to see what else was there (a total of 1500 channels). Yes it is that good.

I would highly recommend it to all comedy fans. Looking forward for more of it.