
This Life
1996· TV Series


15 votes
Twenty years old and from Leicester, Nina moves to North London in 1982, to care for the two young boys of a working single mother, George, the editor of a London literary review.
Status
Ended
Language
English
Type
Miniseries
Last Air Date
June 17, 2016
Networks
Production

Love, Nina is listed here as a drama, but it has definite comic elements. I would go so far as to call it a comedy. Perhaps it is listed as a drama because it does include a few adult themes, though not explicitly so. I was really charmed by this whimsical short series, so much so that I am going to read the book it is based on. The characters are quirky but not in a stereotypical way. The children come close to be stereotypical, I suppose, alternating between being sitcom sassy kids and something more recognizable in real life, but it all works for me. Mean things are said about some…
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