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The greatest movie ever made..!

Some things I liked some I did not.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Yes I had to put a spoiler warning on this because I can not talk about this show with out expressing how educational it is on issues pertaining to the senior community. Always with enough humor to take the edge off, but still enough of a spotlight to get their point across. From senior sexual relations to "being dumped" by your family to cancer to diabetes to fraud prevention to death. It takes a good long look at Europe's treatment of the elderly and offers a subtle warning of "someday this will be you too" ... not just age-wise but also health-care-wise.This series is more than just being about cranky Diana & her loopy friend Tom, his boring son Jeffery & his drunk/slutty wife Marion, gypsy Harvey and the long-suffering Jane who pines for him.I will guarantee you that if you get a chance to see this show you won't regret it and the story lines will stay with you years down the road.

This is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. The acting is incredible and the characters and story lines seem real. It doesn't sugarcoat the aspect of aging and the show deals with issues our elderly face every day. My children even watched this program when they were young and found it hilarious! Diana Trent is gritty, cantankerous, and possesses a dry wit. She also knows how and when to apply her cane to those in need. I want to be just like her when I am older! Harvey Baines is hilarious and ever so patient with a somewhat demanding Diana. Diana and Harvey are the central characters but the rest of the cast of characters all add their own personal charm. The show is timeless and unlike any I've ever seen before or will probably see again.

At the time of writing this, one of the satellite channels in Britain is showing Waiting For God again, and in one of the adverts for it, somebody mentions that what makes this so funny is the refusal of these older people in the Bayview Retirement Home to act like the stereotypical "old person". The characters are brilliant and strikingly diverse. Diana Trent, you can clearly see, has potential to cause anarchy in one of the places you'd least expect to find it - a group of apartments for retired older people in Bournemouth. One of my favourite moments is when she "summons" the manager Harvey Nigel Baines ("Jane, you're touching me") to her dinner table by means of hooking her walking stick round his neck and pulling him to the floor. How many stereotypical "old ladies" do that? Tom Ballard is great because you're never entirely sure if he's in full possession of his mental faculties or whether he's in another world entirely. Sometimes he's climbing Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary, sometimes he's having tea with Greta Garbo, and sometimes he seems completely normal. The residents of Bayview may be old enough to draw a pension, but otherwise they're still sharp enough and intelligent enough. The great thing about Waiting For God is that it shows that - even though they're sidelined by the rest of society - age cannot prevent these people (particularly the home's Casanova Basil) from living exactly as they have done for the first seventy-odd years of their lives.This was first shown when I was little and even fifteen years later it's still as good - if not better - than I remembered it at the time. One of the very endearing characters in this sitcom is Jane, probably best described as Harvey's secretary, who clearly has a massive and unrequited crush on him and - as the programme progresses - it's clear that one way or the other she will get Harvey, but the great thing about her is that she isn't a completely tragic figure. In spite of the fact that Harvey walks all over her and blatantly has no romantic interest in her whatsoever, she is determined to sabotage as many of his other "dates" (although they hardly have a chance to get that far) as she can.I don't know whether Waiting For God is on DVD but it certainly should be.

"Waiting for God" takes place in the corners of the earth in the Bayview Retirement home. This program goes beyond the normal rules of the sitcom and instead takes television to a new level. This program brings a new light to the treatment of the elderly, religion, the meaning of life, and love. I have never seen such a good TV program, I doubt that I ever will again.