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..really liked the original production.. so when it ended at what appeared to be a very logical conclusion.. was pretty much at the time satisfied. But then surfing for programming.. fourteen years later, and to discover they've brought it back.. said WTF! How and why should believe this is going to work a decade and a half later... well guess what.. it's truly gotten better. Now up to date in today's world, everything is so much more complex and interesting. And there was passion there before for Hermione Norris, but now it is real-deal serious. So many ensemble productions have gone by the boards, but these guys have given new life and hope to all those seriously worthwhile, but thought past-time series. It is most desired they continue on for as long as they can keep producing such great work.. bravo to all involved.

Out of all of the dramatic comedies produced on either side of the Atlantic, Cold Feet is the finest to date. Its writing is consistently spectacular - with acting to match, and its return for a sixth (and soon seventh) season has been genuinely triumphant and a sheer joy to watch. A past attempt to develop an American version was - predictably - met with failure. THIS one is the real deal, the one worth "binging" on.

I absolutely love this show. Now have watch the old first 5 seasons and moving back to the newest versions. Keep it going please. Love these characters.

I never saw this on TV but bought the box set two weeks ago, not entirely sure I was going to like it. By the second episode I was completely hooked, and have watched the entire series in record time. Something about it makes it totally unputdownable. The writing is brilliant; I often found myself laughing out loud and then close to tears within one and the same episode. Despite being beyond the age bracket at which I gather the programme was targeted, unmarried and having no children I could still identify with the characters. I think that at one time or another I either empathized or became exasperated with each of them in turn.

The acting is superb throughout, and in the last two episodes it positively took my breath away. Hermione Norris in particular was absolutely extraordinary; why her acting ability doesn't seem to be given the recognition it deserves, I cannot imagine. By the end of the show, I think all the other characters were somewhat in the shadow of hers - which is a massive tribute to her and takes nothing at all away from the excellent work of the others.

There are too many comic highlights to mention, but I particularly appreciated David trying to get his baby son off to sleep by reading stock market reports, Pete's mum being introduced to the joys of smoking cannabis and the mens' ability to play decent golf being affected by the vagaries of their sex lives.

I can't recommend this strongly enough - it really is a television masterpiece.

Cold feet a comedy about couples, sex, love, families & sex...they seem to like sex...........then again who doesn't!!

This is British comedy better than its best, this is COMEDY at its best. It'll stand against all others. And this is not only because the gorgeous Helen Baxendale is in it.

The series starts 6 months after the one off play finished. All the couples are still together [ just ] despite the best attempts of Parenthood, sex problems [ told you they liked it ] money troubles and a forgotten Wedding, i won't tell you whose if you haven't seen it yet.

This is comedy for grown ups, not only because of the racy content, both visual & verbal, but because it makes you think as well as laugh.

Watch it you'll LOVE IT. And it must have done a wonder for the sale of roses!

I had serious doubts about the resurrection of the series but the 2016 season just reminds you what was so good, and different, about this show.

There is a warmth at the heart of Cold Feet so that we continue to care about the characters, even without Rachel!!!! Such a pleasure to have them all back.

They cover all human drama with humour and tragedy which means, although they don't spare the clichés, that they manage the balance of tragedy and comedy with finesse.

Long may the reunion continue

'At Home With The Braithwaites' was fantastic, but lacked the warmth; 'The Darling Buds of May' was lovely, but lacked the realism; 'Cold Feet' just had it all.....

Often compared to 'Friends' which I view as a two-dimensional, superficial string of only-occasionally-funny-but-more-so-puerile-gags aimed at the teenage market, 'Cold Feet' was so much more than this. Mike Bullen created and wrote with stunning ingenuity an intelligent, warm, funny, sad, tragic, weird-at-times-yet-deep-down realistic piece of quality comedy-drama. I have yet to see something of the same genre supersede or even match its standards of acting, writing and direction. Absolutely wonderful.

I have watched cold feet from day one. Fantastic series. Well done on bringing it back after its long hiatus. It is still as good as ever. I haven't watched the last series as yet, as I don't want it to be all over! Thanks to all involved for the laughter and tears over the years.

I'm not much of a TV watcher. I rarely flick through TV because both the BBC and ITV are just dire at the best of times. When I do watch a TV show I'll go with big budget American shows like Game of Thrones or Walking Dead.

Cold Feet though... I caught this by mistake during the first series and loved it. Everything about it is perfect. Every actor is perfect. Nothing else has ever got me so involved and laugh and cry so much. Having it come back so many years later and be every bit as good as it was before... Thank you Mike Bullen. Thank you cast for all coming back. And please keep it coming! (More Ramona though, please!)

Really enjoying this comedy drama. Great character development . You laugh and feel with them . Very , very relatable life stories . Did I mention the exceedingly brillant acting skills ?? Go watch , you will love it .

COLD FEET which can be seen in the USA on the BRAVO channel has the edgy quality of HBO's SEX AND THE CITY another favorite of mine. It

follows the ups and downs of three British couples and their relationships. Kind of British THIRTYSOMETHING although at least one of the couples is on the forty side of thirty.

It surely is better than most anything shown on American Network tv and worth checking out.

My review is based on my feelings of what I watched. I binged the five seasons in a 2 week period. That also included a couple of rewatches. I was frustrated, I laughed-smiled, was judgmental at times and I cried. But I also felt a little bit of me in every character. I felt their pain, happiness, frustration, pride, energy and other feelings. Was absolutely a great show was sad to see it end. Than I discovered the reunion and in tv bliss again! My age at the moment going through the same life obstacles good bad cauitious and aging parents. Like a good book this show was well written casted perfectly. When you go on with your ordinary day and than all of sudden questioning yourself what would... do? You know you watched an extremely brilliant show! Well done. Would even like to see the next generation go through the same but as we all know life is completely different so as said... next generation?

For many years, most of our TV watching has been UK productions. Poldark, Shetland, The Coroner, Home Fires, Father Brown, Death in Paradise, Inspector Lewis are some of our favorites.

Cold Feet quickly went to the top of the list. Vividly portrayed, funny, real characters, great writing--people you quickly grow to care about. Perfection.

We note that the current seasons (2016-present) are a continuation of the original series (1998-2003), so we will have to find the DVDs of the originals so we can spend more time with these folks.

Been a fan since day one. I don't watch much TV, it's mostly over dramatised and heavy padded trash. Very little British TV keeps me entertained (and I am British!) But Cold Feet has always hit the mark. One episode in on series 9 and I've laughed, cried, got angry (at Adam's boss, bloody Snowflakes!) And laughed again, all within an hour. Keep it coming Mr. Bullen.

This program is excellent, no idea what hexa-2 is on about, midlands?? the program is set in Manchester for starters not the midlands, idiot!

All the characters are brilliant actors pull off each role perfectly, watched the whole series and would suggest it to any one who wants the English version of friends. Slightly different to friends its more realistic and its British so much better! The main story starts off about characters Adam and Rachael but by series 2 the whole cast are involved in the main story lines.

Finished in 2003 there are 5 series to watch with about 6 -8 episodes in each. Can buy the box set in most DVD shops for about 20-30 pounds.

. . . but do we have to have crappy Millennial music? The original run had music that reflected the tastes of viewers the same age as the characters. Now we have crappy Millennial music mixed in, which just spoils the whole feel of the show. Get rid of it, please.

She's not Rachel. Ross's famous response when queried as to what might be wrong with his current girlfriend. It basically becomes the theme of his haphazard love life: she's not Rachel.

But that's FRIENDS. What links the ultra (too?) popular US sitcom about a gang, not a group but a gang, of friends who are co-dependent with the British show COLD FEET? Well, obviously the presence of actress Helen Baxendale (Emily in Season 4-5 of Friends), but more than that. I'd really like to say that Cold Feet is the better show, and in some respects it is, but having started later than Friends, it can't escape notice that it is pinching story ideas from the US show left right and centre. There's also the fact that it is about six people, three of each. Cold Feet is a creative hybrid, but also a rather uneasy hybrid, of comedy, soap-opera, and drama. It is an hour long show, not a half hour, a time slot which allows it time to be bolder and more creative than a sitcom. It also packs a much greater emotional punch, the actors really pushed to explore the full range from red-faced rage to total emotional collapse, and all the lighter feelings inbetween. Cold Feet digs in to all kinds of things: affairs, romance, infidelity, addiction, adoption, discontent, class distinction, ageing, health problems (the big C, etc), bereavement, betrayal, reunion, forgiveness, impulsivity...basically something for the whole alphabet.

In the Friends sitcom, Helen Baxendale's Emily ultimately lost out to the supposedly star-crossed connection between her bf/fiance Ross and his high school crush Rachel. In Cold Feet it is Baxendale who gets to be Rachel. A different, British Rachel, surely? Well, no, not entirely. This Rachel, in a way, is just as much of a beloved jinx upon her love interest, Adam (James Nesbitt), or even more so, than the spoiled Long Island prom queen who torpedoed so many of Ross's relationships. Both Rachels show a troubling problem with empathy and accountability; troubling but also wholly consistent with female psychology. I look forward to your letters.

But what else about Cold Feet? Well, it's a show about people, and much more realistic as such than the fantastical and studio-bound Friends. It's shot on location, and the six protagonists are not co-dependent, they're like real life friends, insofar as they almost don't like each other, they gossip, mislead and misinform one another (often accidentally), and they are all in their different ways both likeable and wholly unlikeable as people. They're more real. They're funny, but only sometimes. They're also chaotic, impulsive, considerate, selfish, generous and spiteful, poor communicators, indiscreet, emotional and retentive by turns, etc.

The show is much freer than some others to experiment with its style, often utilising fantasy and dream images, or parodying (copying?) elements from other sources - I already accused it of cribbing ideas from Friends, but most critics compared it to Thirtysomething, another US show. But, as examples, elements of The Prisoner, The Matrix, even The Terminator (or is it Robocop?) all show up as part of the fun. Because it is also a bit soap-opera, and a drama, Cold Feet manages to be tense, fiery, heartbreaking and also romantic. The British Rachel's obstinacy is more overtly linked to her education, her modernity, and it is encouraging to see her go after what she wants, romantically, instead of remaining passive and waiting for Adam (the Ross figure here, although not really) to do all the work. Actually if anyone is the Ross figure...What am I saying? There isn't one. This is a decidedly British show. In fact, a Cold Feet USA was attempted, and like so many US makeovers of British formats, it sank quickly. Why can't they just show the originals?

But. But. But. It is a bit much. It does pile on the domestic kerfuffles. The angry tirades, although spirited, do become wearisome. David (Robert Bathurst), his public school pomposity and reserve, becomes irksome, as does Nesbitt's overacting. Pete and Jenny also aggravate, especially if you binge this show, because they're so crass, and again, the mistake that comes with bingeing, you spot the weaknesses in the writing, the over-reliance on sudden changes of mind or circumstance, which fails very soap-operatic, and thus not very realistic. Maybe one can say that Cold Feet actually tries too hard, wanting to be soapy, dramatic, and silly-funny, all in one episode. The show conforms to a stereotype of sorts, having the men all be amusing idiots (Pete and Adam can be phenomenally stupid, sometimes on account of bad writing), and the women irritable, impatient shrews. As such, Cold Feet contributes to gender generalisations that have become the bane of the male experience in the 21st century.

I'd say there's a slight decline in Series 4, the 3rd having concluded on a marvellously romantic note (the trip to Ireland episode), but then we're taken into borderline bunny-boiler territory the next year, which feels gimmicky and forced. One begins to tire of the characters' emotional volatility, exuberant stupidity, and poor communication skills. So often the friends don't say what actually needs to be said, they don't push or probe or pry, when such would get the other person to open-up and prevent a relationship mishap. So very British, but after Friends and all those US imports, so very constipated.

But credit where it's due, Cold Feet kept on bouncing back. Season 5 jumps in its reach and quality beyond anything Friends ever dreamed of doing. The show made a (mostly, occasionally, sporadically) successful comeback after years away (Seasons 6-9), and not even Friends could do that. Cold Feet is a variable show but such is life, variable. We're up we're down, we're smart we're stupid. We're brilliant and we're lousy. Smile and forgive, and your round, isn't it?

So, to sum-up, a sort of soapy merger of Thirtysomething and Friends, but British. It's worth seeing, or some of it is. I'd especially recommend the first five seasons. If you're a Friends fanatic and you only ever saw Helen Baxendale as Emily (boo!) then give her another chance, this time as Rachel.

In this show we follow three couples Adam and Rachel who engaged in first episode. Pete and Jenny who are married and had there son in first episode. David and Karen who have son Josh who is 3 and nanny who lives with them Ramona. This show is so good , it mixes drama and comedy very well but is also a soap opera. This show reminds on American show thirty somethings from 1987. Also this show had such good cast David(Robert Bathurst) Adam(James Nesbitt), and Karen(Hermione Norris) are my favorite the actors who played had a very good roles after this show ended. I still got crush on the Robert Bathurst.

The writers did a good job of creating funny scenarios, with interesting dialogue. The actors do a good job creating believable if somewhat over the top characters.

Unfortunately I have problem one problem with the show and that is-I don't like any of the characters. Each of them has enough annoying traits to make them to make him/her fairly unlikable.

I do not respect any of the characters.

None of them seems to have a moral center. None of them has any integrity.

In that sense, I suppose the show is very realistic in its depiction of typical middle class people in a very materialistic world. The stories reflect realistic events in the lives of "normal" people, except for maybe a few crazy slapstick scenes that seem to keep happening, especially to Adam and Pete.

This is the best comedy of the 1990's and hopefully continue strong in to 2000. It makes its american counter-part Friends like a childish sitcom. Cold Feet is the best drama/comdey in a long time that only the british could do best. The script is razor sharpe, the actors are easy to ID with and the plot is fast full of twist and very sexy