Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Dartherer I really don't get the hype.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Paul Evans You could be forgiven for thinking a comedy set in a Nursing Home could be anything other then magically funny, I can think of few with such a setting, the closest possibly being You're only young twice from the 1970's. Running in the early 90's from 1990-1994, the series comprised 5 series, totalling 47 episodes. The standard does not drop at any point, it's a glorious mix of bittersweet humour and slapstick from start to finish. You cannot help but utterly love the cynical black heart of Diana, or the boyish innocence of Tom. They make a wonderful duo, and truly feed of one another, their different styles of humour contrasting beautifully. As the show goes on you see a slight softening of Diana, and a slight toughening of Tom. The final episode is delightful, and shows you how far the characters have come, and how much they know one another. Jane and The Idiot Bains provide constant laughs, but it's the ageing Lothario Basil who has me in stitches.It always challenges Society's views towards the elderly, sometimes dark, but always comedy with a heart. 9/10

gingergargoyle 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.

IridescentTranquility 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.

HailMary "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.