Simão Guedes This is one of the best TV series I have ever watched. Seeing it was so funny, I have bought the DVD box and am practically done watching through all the episodes.The humour in the series is overwhelmingly abundant in many ways. You cannot help but laugh.Ben, the father of this family, is the funniest guy. His seriousness, his unwillingness to give up, his constant state of annoyance and anger, his manifested selfishness, his lack of concern for what happens round him and all of his other characteristics combine beautifully to create one of the most humorous characters you will ever find. Of course, many of these characteristics are bad ones, but still funny (that's the point). Robert Lindsay, who plays Ben, does an excellent job.Susan is a nice mother, but also rather selfish and a control-freak. The way she controls and manipulates her husband is often lamentable, in my opinion, but funny and laughter-provoking.The children have a natural reaction to the fact that their parents are the way they are: they do not really like to be with them. This is very interesting and funny as well. Each of the children makes the show funny in a different way.With so many different characters, it is likely that you will identify, in a number of aspects, with at least one of them. For example, I identify, to a significant extent, with Michael (in that he is an intelligent guy, that he likes to use his laptop, that he finds himself in the midst of his family of 'idiots', and that he is about my current age around the fourth series) and also, to a lesser extent, with Ben (in that he has a certain spirit of individuality, enjoying being alone with no-one to disturb him).I suggest that you do not show this series to children. It was rated '12' in the UK, and rightly so. It contains some moderate language (no swear words, but a few insults), some degree of sexual seduction, implied nudity and many sexual references.All in all, it is a very good series, likely to make you laugh a lot with every single episode, and suitable for pre-teens, teens and adults alike.

astridtarwild Just watching the very first series and I noticed the Harper's house was very different back then. The lounge in the first series had a wall with a pool table by the front door, the under stairs cupboard door faced the front door which also opens the opposite to the later series. I notice the fireplace has moved from the kitchen side of the lounge to where there are two windows which are not there in the later series Susan and Ben's bathroom is on the opposite side to later episodes as is the fire place in the lounge! Also, there is a door to the right of the kitchen door and this is not there in the later series! I now find myself looking for these differences as I watch to try and find out when the house was altered! All very odd and I was so confused when I started watching from Episode 1 series 1! Astrid

Jason Evans Many on here have been asking how this programme even got commissioned in the first place, let alone renewed for 11 series. Well, the original commissioning was a result of an unholy pact between Robert Lindsay and Lucifer - in exchange for his soul, and a bathtub full of virgins' blood, the Dark Lord pulled some strings at the BBC and got this unholy abomination onto our screens. Then, upon the spring equinox of each year, Satan would grant Lindsay a new series in return for the blood-sacrifice of an infant.Now, I'm an NHS nurse - and in 2011 I was transferred from paediatrics to the geriatric ward - as a result of some unfounded, and frankly libellous, accusations that I was supplying a certain British sitcom actor with newborns as part of some kind of demonic ritual. Geriatrics is an awful place - you can't imagine how annoying it is, running around changing catheters and bedpans whilst those decrepit old folk selfishly cling on to life. Fortunately I have stumbled upon a brilliant solution - simply stick the elderly oxygen-thieves in front of a My Family DVD and witness their will to live drop down to zero in no time! Then all I have to do is send them off to the morgue and I'm free to spend the rest of my day swigging special brew behind the nurses station!

egraves7 For years I have been trying to find a comedy that is even worth watching. I finally found it. Our local Public Broadcasting Station recently stopped carrying My Family every weeknight for a few months, and I have only seen about ten episodes. However, I was extremely impressed with what I saw. Nick's antics really add a lot to the series, along with Michael's contrasting seriousness. Kris Marshall does a terrific job of delivering Nick's one-line witticisms, which is one of the biggest reasons I tune every evening. I was also very impressed with Robert Lindsay, who plays Ben. He is great at being the father that doesn't really care. To anyone who is looking for a good laugh, try to find "My Family". I would have to say that the show is the best British comedy I have seen, and probably the best comedy worldwide that I have seen.