Everyone Else Burns

Being raised a Jehovah's Witness and leaving 2 years ago I found this sitcom hilarious and surprisingly accurate. The writers must of also been raised in the religion because there were so many small querks that you'd only know if you lived through it first hand. I'm not sure how well people from a different background will understand the niche jokes but I couldn't stop laughing. I thought they did a really good job of balancing the hilarious side of some of the rules and also the seriousness of it and how it affects people's family. I like how they changed just enough details so as not to get sued by them! I hope they return for series 2!!

I grew up in an evangelical christian cult-like religious organisation and much of this is so close to my experience it is uncanny. I appreciate that not many other people will have experienced this sort of thing but believe me it exists.

I am actually finding it surprisingly affirming and liberating to see the situations this family find themselves in and to finally be able to see a funny side to it.

I particularly like the characters who are David's wife (Fiona) and daughter (Rachel) - super acting from Kate O'Flynn and Amy James-Kelly.

Well done to everyone involved, I really hope there will be more seasons in the future.

Good scripts and a fine premise. A parody of Jehovah's Witnesses and various hard line Christian sects. A talented cast that is let down by Simon Bird who is only capable of rehashing the same character seen in In-betweens. He's got no other range and it takes the whole story line into comedy cliché, where as all the other cast are quite rightly playing the characters much straighter and therefore stronger.

Shame. He was poorly cast. I may stick with it but it's borderline because he continually ruins the plots with his pantomime over acting. Hopefully future casting directors will take note and we won't see him for a while.

This is an excellent sitcom. It is very layered, so takes a few episodes for things to settle in and become familiar and therefore comfortable to laugh at. It its both heart warming and laugh out loud funny. The acting is great, and the direction and setting is perfect. It is an excellent parody of organised religion,family life and modern Britain. But there is also a clear positive message and a feel good factor that makes it a great watch. Simon Bird plays his familiar uptight self, as a over pious dad.. But the rest of the cast play around this with real skill, making him seem even more uptight than in the inbetweeners. Really well done..

When watching new US series, if its a slow burner sometimes it can take a few episode to "get it". If that happens with a UK series, with only 6 episodes, the series is almost finished by the time it clicks.

That is the case here. I forced myself to watch the first three episodes. Until mid ep 3 I didn't get it. Didn't like the characters and couldn't spot anything funny.

I think lots of the bad reviews have come from people watch ep 1, expecting something riotous like the Inbetweeners and switching off feeling disappointed.

Then it clicked. The characters started to gel and I started to understand the whole point of it. For me there are not that many laugh out loud moments, though there are some. Its packed full of interesting references and observations. I was hooked wondering where it would go.

For me, the ending was not satisfying and it did not go where I wanted it to. All the more reason to watch S2...