Avoidance season 1

BBC
Jun 10, 2022

BBC
Jun 10, 2022

Summary Jonathan (Romesh Ranganathan) and Claire (Jessica Knappett) split up, but he avoids telling their nine-year-old son (Kieran Logendra) as they move in with his sister (Mandeep Dhillon) and her wife (Lisa McGrillis) in the British comedy series co-written by Ranganathan and Benjamin Green. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 1...

Created By: Benjamin Green, Romesh Ranganathan

BBC
Jun 10, 2022

BBC
Jun 10, 2022

Avoidance

Season 1

Season Premiere: Jun 10, 2022

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Created By: Benjamin Green, Romesh Ranganathan

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Episode 1 • Jun 10, 2022 • 28 m

Episode #1.1

Jonathan and his partner Claire are splitting up, but he's desperate not to tell their son Spencer, so runs away with him to stay with his sister Danielle and her wife Courtney.

Episode 2 • Jun 10, 2022 • 29 m

Episode #1.2

When Spencer gets invited to a laser quest party by Jed, a cool kid he is keen to befriend, Jonathan is so distracted by overparenting the situation that he risks both embarrassing Spencer and losing his job.

Episode 3 • Jun 10, 2022 • 28 m

Episode #1.3

Jonathan and Spencer are still living at Danielle's, and tensions are rising. When Claire questions the appropriateness of their son sleeping in an office room, Jonathan panics and lies to her about finding a new place to live.

Episode 4 • Jun 10, 2022 • 29 m

Episode #1.4

When Claire invites a mysterious work colleague into her home, Jonathan worries that Spencer will end up with a new Dad. Meanwhile, Danielle and Courtney try to have a romantic night in.

Episode 5 • Jun 10, 2022 • 28 m

Episode #1.5

Jonathan worries he has no friends, so makes the terrible decision to go for a night out with his boss Keith. Meanwhile, Danielle starts to reconsider having children.

Episode 6 • Jun 10, 2022 • 29 m

Episode #1.6

It is Spencer's birthday and he wants the whole family to go to a zombie-themed hotel. But Danielle and Courtney are not speaking, and Jonathan and Claire are still awkward since their kiss.

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Sep 20, 2023

Created by Ranganathan and Benjamin Green, Avoidance is a touching, funny picture of a man trying to make himself better for the sake of his son. We don’t know how much of Jonathan’s crippling fear of confrontation is part of Ranganathan’s personal history, but he and Green have created a character that we can all relate to on some level.

By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW

The Guardian

Aug 7, 2023

Avoidance doesn’t have quite the subtlety or complexity of those exceptional series [Daisy Haggard’s Back to Life, Aisling Bea’s This Way Up or Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s This Country] (yet?), but it is delicate, funny and truthful.

By Lucy Mangan FULL REVIEW

The Telegraph

Aug 7, 2023

It’s not a tight, consistently funny comedy, or insightful enough to justify the meandering pace, and nor does it go the Gervais provocative route – unless you examine its dubious gender politics. Instead, it’s blandly sweet and curiously old-fashioned, like a sugar-free humbug.

By Marianka Swain FULL REVIEW

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Top Cast

Romesh Ranganathan

Jonathan

Kieran Logendra

Spencer

Lisa McGrillis

Courtney

Jessica Knappett

Claire

Mandeep Dhillon

Danielle

Matthew Lewis

Brett

Aisling Bea

Megan

Olive Tennant

Sam

Tony Jayawardena

Keith

Samantha Baines

Kirsty

Tianna Haffenden

Waitress

Bruce Mackinnon

Jed's Dad, Tom

Cohen Day

Jed

Louise Ford

Leila

Jessica Ransom

Josie

Tommy Finnegan

Darren

Ed Kear

Tim

Shila Bentley

Yolanda

Luke McQueen

Cameron

Jordan Brookes

Sensei

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