The Au Pair

One of the best Channel 5 dramas I have seen and think I have watched them all.

Zoe is the step mother of two lovely children who she is struggling to build a relationship with. She is running a successful millinery business and definitely finds it hard to run the business and the family.

She decides to get an au pair to help and Sandrine enters her life.

Great location as always and superb acting - wonderful to see David Suchet on form. Kevin Doughty who played Sean in Stella is too playing a great role as Zoe's husband Chris.

The four episodes will keep you guessing until the end.

Definitely recommended!

As a diabetic i found this extremely annoying! Firstly INSULIN is kept in a fridge not a cupboard! Secondly if someone is unconscious with LOW SUGAR you do NOT give them INSULIN! That will kill them!! Sorry but what a bad, bad script!!

Really wanted to carryon watching but the extreme inaccuracy would not allow me too!

If someone with dangerously low blood sugar was given insulin they would die! I dont understand how basic medical knowledge wasn't checked! I cant surely be the only person who saw this? Even if you are not diabetic you would know this!

We live in the year 2025 and there is GOOGLE!

The insulin shouldn't be in the cupboard. It should be refrigerated. And when a person's blood glucose is dangerously low, you do NOT give them a shot of insulin as in episode 1. You administer glucagon or give them juice or sugary drink. A shot of insulin would make their glucose even lower. It would not bring him around as it did.

The whole diabetes part is completely wrong and should've been researched better - totally unbelievable. No one gives insulin in a "usual" dose especially without checking their blood sugar first. Obviously they never even consulted a real diabetic or else they would have been made aware of these inaccuracies.

Channel5, you should be ashamed of yourself. Your consultant for all things medical should be sacked! The medical inaccuracies in every single episode are absolutely appalling!!! It actually became annoying to watch. The acting was really poor from everyone except Sally Breton and David Suchet. Kenny Doughty was particularly disappointing as a seasoned actor. He should have done better. I feel like if this had been made by ITV who are known for their miniserieses or the BBC, it could have been so much better.

Overall, I'm loathed to give it even three stars. Also, it did not need to be four episodes.

The best part of this drama is how George went from doddery old man to flying off at a whim driving around and living in a flat with spiral staircase with his daughter giving him his insulin jabs because he kept forgetting to do it the kids are great little actors bit I think it is Sally bretton does a Great job in it though shame they had to go to Ireland to film it when there is plenty of places to film in England or they could have changed the place for filming reason but they didn't so it's a shame that certain things always let this drama down but it seems to be a thing with channel five these days.