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Following a murderous spree, the second series finds Jill
still obsessed with Don and travelling - with the virtually
brain-dead Linda - to a new-age health centre where Don and
Cath, under the wing of hippy therapist Jacques, are trying
to rebuild their relationship. But Jill's discovery of Cath's
pregnancy sends her to new heights of violent delirium...
The
second series of Nighty Night picks up the horribly
hilarious and devastatingly dark tale after Jill has framed
Glen for her bungled murder attempts. Jill is now moving on
with her life, following a visit to Glen in an institution
for the criminally insane to relieve him of the burden of
his chip and PIN.
Jill's
mission is to find ex-neighbour Don and finally make him hers.
She kidnaps her friend Linda and takes her along on the crazed
caravan crusade to North Cornwell where Don and wife Cath
are recovering from their experiences and trying to make a
fresh start, working through their marital differences at
the Trees Therapy Centre.
Cath
has become a new woman - confident and flirtatious - and clearly
infatuated with her balding therapist Jacques. Don is the
same as ever, but has found a new love of surfing and an impressionable
teenage girlfriend. It's not long though before the beleaguered
couple's lives are at the mercy of Jill's terrifying whims
once more.
Julia
Davis, who also wrote the series, plays the insane Jill Tyrell.
And, to be honest I think the fact that Davis is a woman has
allowed her to get away with so much more than a male scriptwriter
would have managed. Her writing is just (and I mean just)
this side of being truly offensive. I'm trying to imagine
a man getting away with penning the scene where Jill is going
through 12 year-old Bruce's bedroom trying to find some sperm
to impregnate herself with. The moment where she picks up
his underpants from his wash basket is in incredibly bad taste,
but you can't help but laugh.
The
second series flies close to the wind with a number of sensitive
topics including racism (Jill takes the place of a black woman
and spends a great deal of time telling everyone she is black
and was brought up in the jungle); pedophilia (desperate to
have a child with Don's genes she tries to seduce his 12 year-old
son); rape (Jill claims that Don's son raped her); and bestiality
(Linda's boyfriend tries to get Jill to perform with his horse
for the camera).
I
couldn't help but be reminded of Mike Leigh's Play For
Today comedy Abigail's Party. Jill is not a million
miles away from Alison Steadman's Beverly. The accent is almost
identical, but there is also the fact that Jill tries to be
in control of every situation by bullying those around her
into doing things they don't necessarily want to do. Then
there's the flirting with Don. In Abigail's Party Beverly
also flirts with Tom, the husband of her neighbour. And, just
like Don, Tom is not much of a talker - sitting for hours
saying nothing. Then
there is Rebecca Front's Cath. This character is very similar
to Susan, Abigail's mother. She just goes along with what
anyone else wants and is incapable of getting angry, spending
the whole time apologising when other people trample on her.
As
the episodes progress the farce element, as well as Jill's
ridiculous lying, just gets more and more outrageous - until
we are left with the payoff, a sort of Benny Hill style chase.
Extras
include Behind Nighty Night (28 min behind the scenes
featurette); Out-takes (8 mins); deleted scenes; BBC trails
for the show; picture gallery; and an alternative cut of episode
one - although to be honest this really isn't worth watching
as there are very few differences. In fact, the alternate
cut of Episode
One
should really have include the 15 minute footage that starred
Doon Mackichan as the chatshow host.
It's
a shame that some of the deleted scenes were cut - as they
help to flesh out some of the events that aren't explained
fully. In Episode Four there is a cut scene, entitled
Squirrel in the Wind, that show Jill taking Natalie
for a photo shoot. There's a great moment where Jill throws
away her camera tripod and then minutes later the camera does
a quick pan to show an old lady who is unconscious with the
tripod on top of her.
Other
deleted scenes explain how Linda managed to unstick her hand
from Jill's nether regions after she managed to glue her hand
to Jill's insides (apparently she lost a finger when trying
to separate the two) and we discover where the man that Linda
killed (by rolling on him) is stashed.
It
may sound a little clichéd, but the second series of
Nighty Night really does push the boundaries of comedy
to breaking point. Thank God there are still individuals like
Davis working for the BBC.
 
Darren
Rea
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