My Mum Your Dad

Ask any kid about their parents dating and they will probably say it's cringe. So technically this program has opted for mostly parents in their 50s where there kids are older. Mostly they've given their everything to parenting and these kids so now it's time for themselves. The kids seem eager for their parents to date someone who will be able to love and care for their parents. As a twist they have control over their parents choice of partner and there to give their approval. The positives is that this is real people and a good opportunity for them to meet similar people. None of them are 50 somethings who've let themselves go but they just need a little help. The kids are all young adults and seem nice. When dating as parents it's often hard, meeting people is difficult, meeting good people is even harder and doing the right thing for your family is extremely challenging. Giving these parents this opportunity is great, but giving the kids such power seems a little unfair. They've had their parents and now all going about their own lives, their parents should need to restart without being judged. The program really misses the opportunity to make this a bit more. It's very low budget and given how glam these programs can be it seems a bit sad they can't escape their kids and be enjoying a bit of sun and flirting with some real experts. With the country house setting it almost feels like they are over emphasising that they are older and less fun.

We really enjoyed watching this, and it grew on us more and more with each episode. We thought we would hate it but it got better and better, watching all the participants become more well known to us. The kids were great, and all really likeable.

When we first started meeting the parents and hearing their stories it was hard to see where this might go but they soon got to know the others and get matched off by their choices. The kids were all watching from another house from the start and became the relationship experts, doing a great job helping the matches.

Davina was brilliant, just loved the whole thing once we got into it!!

Entertaining in the broadest least critical sense. An attempt to cram meeting , courtship and progression into a two week isolated jaunt is a predictable sequence and result. Inevitably you will get nice people and awful people in the mix as they interact. You will also get people who will automatically hit it off in there or in the queue at the supermarket deli.

The "experts" brought in for the sessions were at times cheesy and cringe worthy with the overall situation messing with peoples minds whilst the ones who would have hit it off anywhere sail on oblivious.

The only reason I've awarded 2 instead of 1 is the full time "expert panel" who kept watch over them. That was inspired.

I won't be bothering with any of series 2 when it arrives, even if it's the only alternative to watching paint dry.