Cuckoo review: Mad women, sly men, a fab kitchen... this is psycho-drama by ... trends now

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Cuckoo (Channel 5) 

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Rule One of a good domestic psychodrama is: men, they're all the same, you can't trust them. 

Rule Two: however superficially sane they might seem, all women are mad.

Rule Three, and most important of all: every troubled family has a fabulous kitchen.

Lee Ingleby is Nick, the sleazy male in Cuckoo (Ch5). He's neck-deep in debt, unable to pay the repair bills for the family's tumbledown farmhouse that is gradually being consumed by ivy, like the palace in Sleeping Beauty.

He's even pawning his wife's jewellery to make ends meet, but daren't tell her, because he's in enough trouble already for having an office affair that also cost him his job. Men, eh?

At least he's not crazed with mid-life hormones like the loony lodger, Sian (Jill Halfpenny). She turns up with an envelope full of £20 notes, intent on renting a room, and immediately sets about taking charge.

Within a day, she's cooking a full English breakfast for four on the range, and loading the washing machine. You might think she's succumbed to the temptation of that huge rustic kitchen, but there's a deeper scheme sizzling away with the bacon and eggs —

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