Review: Delicious

DVD: Delicious (2016)

Leo (Iain Glen) is a successful hotel owner and top chef and is married to beautiful second wife Sam (Emilia Fox). But all is not as it seems, does Leo owe his success to first wife Gina (Dawn French) and her culinary skills? Did he steal her ideas?

What a Christmas hotty ‘Delicious’ promised to be and I bemoaned the fact that I would miss it as it was on Sky (which I refuse to subscribe to).
It had a back-drop of food, Cornwall, sex with Iain Glen, murder and national treasure Dawn French appearing in it.

French (touted as the main star) plays spurned ex-wife Gina, and I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but she was seemingly SO aggressive and forceful in each scene that I found her jarring. Even in the very … umm… boringly mismatched and not in the least bit steamy sex scene between her and Glen, she looked so cross during oral sex (on her) that I thought she was going to batter him. Perhaps that’s just her ‘cum face’?

French dominated every scene she was in to the complete detriment of the programme. It was almost like she was standing on a box reading her lines in a ‘LOOK AT ME’ way. Very strange. Though on reflection I do feel French isn’t a terribly good actress and despite being a national treasure I sort of get the inkling her personality in real life isn’t one of ‘jolliness’ and this came through to me in Delicious.

In fact all the characters seemed to be over shadowed by French, including Glen who played Leo as a sensitive philanderer, while Fox played Sam as a bundle of anxieties, none of the characters gelled together. Peripheral characters didn’t get a look in, especially Sheila Hancock who may have been the saving grace with her acid tongue as Leo’s mum. They were all so mismatched. Worst of all, I didn’t care about any of them which spells complete disaster for any programme. By the middle of episode 3 I was ready to fast forward through to the end, or just not watch it at all. I really didn’t care about the characters and the story was completely boring. Not for me sorry.

Delicious will be available to buy from 30th January, 2017.

Review by Tina (co-host of 60 Minutes With) from a disc kindly supplied by Aim Publicity.