Hullraisers

This is a comedy that is easy to watch but soooo funny! The 3 main characters are easy to watch and all funny in their own right..... Lucy Beaumont is all over this pleeeeese do more!!!!

So good to see a sitcom that is well written, cast, directed and not overacted. I am a cynic, not much makes me laugh, or at least chuckle quite a lot.

Realistic, recognisable, endearing characters, attitudes n scenarios condensed into exaggerated, seriously smile/laugh slightly out loud comedy gold. Been a long time since anything this good has made it onto the screen.

Brilliant ...

I've written reviews for each season of "Hullraisers" that you can find against the show's final episodes. Now the show is confirmed as not returning, I decided to post something here, to sum up my overall feelings about it.

Toni (Leah Brotherhead) is a mother and aspiring actress, living in Hull. Her older sister Paula (Sinead Matthews) is married to Dane (Yanick Ghanty) and has two children of her own, including Ashley (Natalie Davies) who is almost an adult herself. Rana (Taj Atwal) is Toni's best friend and Dane's sister and who is enjoying her single, childless, life. Toni struggles to cling to her youthful optimism, as it's drained away by parenthood.

I thought that the first season of "Hullraisers" was fine. It's not particularly hilarious, but neither is it a disastrous debacle. I really liked the performances though from our three leads. Leah Brotherhead came to my attention in "Zomboat" a few years back, this is a somewhat more realistic role though and, to my mind, she acquits herself to it well. All three roles could, in another version of the show, been reduced to their one defining characteristic, Toni is unfulfilled, Paula is a fishwife, and Rana is a maneater but there's enough shades to each performance to move beyond that.

The Hull setting doesn't get that much play and, having spent a bit of time there, the accents are a little more "generic Yorkshire/Lancashire" than specifically Humberside. I do like that its set in a more realistic working-class background and not extreme poverty though.

I would say that I thought the series improved in the second season, so much so that I would have looked forward to a third run.

Saw the trailer and thought I'd give it a go. Totally engrossed as it's easy to get into and before I knew it i'd watched the entire 6 episodes in one evening. Really funny one liners and could totally relate to some of the storyline and chaos especially Toni. Good lighthearted comedy especially at a time the world is in chaos. Defintely need to have another season and more than 6 episodes pllllleassse!:

I wasn't expecting much from this, thought it be the latest one and done after the awful witch finder and Newark Newark.

It's really good, natural, daft, it doesn't try too hard to create ridiculous plots, they all feel like things that could happen. The lead 3 women are all great.

Toni though is genuinely hilarious, I'm a 35 year old guy with no kids, so I'm not even the target but I loved it. Hope they do way more series and longer than 6 episodes.

This is feel good tv. Can never get too much of that. Any silly blokes saying women aren't funny.... Watch this!