Sharon Horgan

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney convert their fearless comedy from salty romp to black farce: season two opens with a rancorous wetting of the baby's head, at which the flaws of Sharon and Rob's families are exposed. It's that icy early phase of parenting where you can't just get on with child-rearing, because a thousand other things intrude. But Catastrophe can look serious adult frustrations in the eye and cackle, because it's underpinned by the snappy couple's gorgeous "us v world" chemistry. Miraculous.

Radio Times review

Sharon Horgan's young Irishwoman meets a handsome American stranger (co-writer Rob Delaney) in a bar and embarks on a wild affair that they both know will end when he heads back to the US. Problem is, she then falls pregnant and they decide to stay together and keep the child.

It's a premise that isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. She obviously needs the support, while he is adamant that his kid will have what he didn't - a dad who sticks around.

It's grown-up, rude, the sex scenes are hilarious and the two leads have a genuine rapport in a comedy that has you rooting for this odd couple all the way through, whether it is meeting her ghastly friends or coping with the medical scares that accompany her pregnancy. There are verve, panache and real things at stake here.

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Radio Times review

One of the many joys of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's brilliantly funny and warm-hearted comedy is its fearless embrace of authentic and thorny issues that sometimes threaten our couple's otherwise solid union. So tonight, Horgan's Sharon has to face up to her postnatal depression, an aversion to her fellow mums and her lonely fixation on Sam, the one member of the mother and baby class she actually likes, but who seems rather put off by her neediness.

Delaney's Rob, meanwhile, wants Sharon's new therapist to prescribe more sex with him and is momentarily tempted by a sexy (and very forward) French work colleague, Olivia.

It seems as if the pair are being tested a lot more this series, but fans will always feel safe with Delaney and Horgan around. Probably because their consistently excellent performances and lashings of keen, spiky and cliché-free writing alchemise everything they touch into comedy gold.

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