Did Covid Change Your Lifestyle?
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the premise of Open All Hours applies to all the classic sitcoms - Fawlty Towers, Hancock, Steptoe & Son, One Foot In The Grave, Blackadder - the main characters are all trapped, trapped and kicking against their situation and circumstances. In most, it is two characters who are inter-dependent, indeed manacled together, bonded for life even though they long for escape, they know that their partner would not survive, and indee, neither would they.
Last Of The Sumer Wine has none of this dark undertone - it is essentially a group of old foks enjoying their second childhod - probably because their first one was to miserable and deprived to have been enjoyable, so they are making the most of their second chance at frivolity and fun.
The point I am finally getting to is - each works within its setting, and would not work outside.