Happy Valley star Siobhan Finneran's sitcom The Other One, which first aired on BBC One back in 2020, has been added to Netflix today.
The series was written and directed by comedian and comedy writer Holly Walsh, whose other TV work includes being part of the writing team for Motherland and its new Lucy Punch-fronted spinoff Amandaland.
The Other One centres on the characters of Cathy Walcott (played by Ellie White, more recently seen in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin) and her sister Cat Walcott (Lauren Socha) who each had no idea that the other existed until their father's sudden death.
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The cast of the show also includes Rebecca Front (Poldark) as Cathy's mother, while Finneran plays Marilyn, seen as the "mistress", mother of Cat.
Amit Shah (Happy Valley, Mr Bates vs The Post Office), Caroline Quentin (Men Behaving Badly) Lolly Adefope (Ghosts) and Shobu Kapoor (EastEnders) also appear in the comedy series.
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The series currently boasts a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes for its first season. Guardian's review described it as a "show with a loving heart that nevertheless manages to remain witty", while The Times called it "a treat".
Audiences seemed to enjoy The Other One too, with a largely positive reception from viewers. It was branded "very amusing and watchable", "quirky" and "fun to watch" (via IMDb).
One user said: "you will be in tears of laughter", while another added: "the show is great at making fun of awkward situations…"
As this forgotten show finds a new audience on Netflix, Siobhan Finneran has a brand new ITV crime drama on the way called Protection, which recently dropped its first-look trailer.
Another one for fans of a crime drama like Happy Valley, she will play the lead character of Detective Inspector Liz Nyles, who finds herself "at the heart of a security breach within her witness protection unit."
The Other One is streaming now on Netflix, and is also still available on BBC iPlayer.
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