30 minSeason 2 • Episode 6
LatestJill's lies are finally catching up with her. The man she framed for her husband's murder, Glen Bulb, escapes from the mental hospital. And Cath is becoming suspicious of Jill's "pregnancy", which is now entering its 11th month.
Jill Tyrell is a narcissistic sociopath who manages a beauty parlour alongside her moronic, asthmatic assistant Linda. When Jill learns that her husband has cancer, she uses this fact to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole, a wheelchair user with multiple sclerosis whose husband Don, a womanising doctor, Jill has become obsessed with.
Acting
Davis commits to Jill's sociopathy with terrifying precision
Writing
Dialogue so awkward it physically hurts
Direction
Tight sitcom craft weaponized for evil
Creator
Julia Davis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Prefigured the 'unlikeable woman' TV boom by a decade, but British critics initially found it too cruel to air pre-watershed.
Mark Gatiss wrote his character Glenn Bulb specifically to be killed off gruesomely; Davis made him survive both seasons out of spite.
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