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Does the American narrator, an outsider commentating on the strange Brits, indicate that this is targeted at the US market?

Is it meant to be a kids programme, because it is remarkably tame and the adults are empty shell stereotypes?

The woman who comes from a rich family, apparently out of the blue, writes a book on raising teenagers that sounds like some sort of vanity press offering. It's all ridiculously unbelievable.

I bailed on this big bore after watching the first two episodes of the first season.

It's so terribly written, especially the character of Cassie (played by Kaley Cuoco) and the "imagined" conversations with the dead Alex (played by Michiel Huisman).

I think it wants to be a comedy-drama, but it is essentially a farce -- and a poor farce at that. What a waste of Kaley Cuoco.

I suspect I saw this when it was first shown on the BBC in 1992. I don't remember what I thought about it at the time, though I'm guessing I found it rather disappointing.

Watching it now in 2025, it is hard to take it seriously. The run up to the "silent" (but subtitled) interview with Kendo Nagasaki -- or at least with the person "channeling" him -- made me seriously wonder how much of this whole "documentary" was scripted.