Roger & Val Have Just Got In, BBC Two, review They had just returned from a night away at a wedding where, we discover, Roger hogged the disco, dancing to his old favourites like Eye of the Tiger and Don't Stop Me Now. You did a sprint, Rog. An actual sprint. Four times very fast round the dance floor," Val reminds him. Luckily for Rog, it seems he was so drunk he has no recollection of this. At times the dialogue neatly reveals the stresses and compromises of a marriage, and French and Molina deliver it brilliantly. But the problem is that the scripts, by Emma and Beth Kilcoyne, are so very manipulative. I know that may seem like a strange complaint, because all scripts, from comedy to tragedy, are manipulative - each one is trying to make the audience feel a certain way. The trouble with Roger & Val is that it is so obvious. It is like watching a ham-fisted magician who lets you see how the trick works. For example, when Roger and Val open the post that arrived while they were away, they find Val has got an interview for the post of deputy head. "Oh," she says, "why couldn't we have know about this last night..." Roger chimes in: "If only we'd known. Last night at the disco. We'd have been a couple on the up. Val continues enthusiastically: "God, yes. Look at us everyone. Roger's fighting unfair dismissal and I am on a shortlist for a deputy headship." " She says this without a trace of irony. And we are left to reflect on what sorry, touching figures Roger and Val must be, that the letter would have let them hold their heads up high with their friends. Unfortunately, it is glaringly clear the writers have engineered those lines to make us feel exactly that way. And far from being an understated effect, it is like a cattle prod on the emotions: 5,000 volts to the part of the brain that makes us go, "Oh, how touching and sad." And I don't know about you, but I'd rather not feel l am being pushed around like that.