Rafe Spall and Esther Smith star in AppleTVPlus' rom-com about the under-seen face of the adoption process. Read THR's TV review:
a child enters the new parents' lives. Thus, it's indeed refreshing to see the arduous preparations finally take center stage, and with a light touch.candidly lays bare the emotional filigree of failing to conceive a child and choosing to devote your life to a tiny stranger. At its worst, it yokes us to two unlikeable people who grind you down with their endless neuroses.
She and Jason started dating when he was still with his ex, which provides them a craggy foundation, especially as cowardly Jason has a penchant for flirting with other women behind Nikki's back. She's desperate for a child and he's desperate to please her, so at the end of the pilot they decide to submit themselves to the invasive adoption process.best succeeds when it confronts the class problem of Nikki and Jason's new endeavor.
That social worker, played by a fizzy Imelda Staunton, turns out to be a highlight of the series. Far from stuffy, she immediately sees through Nikki and Jason's ruse and advises them to stop pretending to be like "those people" — "those people" being the picture-perfect posh folks who furnish their nursery with wooden dollhouses. Instead, she wants them to be more like the parents who buy Barbie's Rainbow Castle. "That's not who the kids are.
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