Simon Amstell: How To Review 'Grandma's House'

Simon (Amstell) says: "I didn't want to hide behind another name. I've seen sitcoms where they've changed the name of the person and they don't ring as true as something like Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld."
Yesterday's The Independent preview declared: "a British Curb Your Enthusiasm".
Today's review in The Independent; "In some ways, Grandma's House is The Royle Family with chopped liver."
But it was also "Seinfeld removed to Gants Hill" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm also has loud echoes in Grandma's House."
Co-writer Dan Swimer got to puff away in Saturday's Guardian Guide, but jokily warned; "this show's nothing like Seinfeld, starring comedian Jerry Seinfeld playing a comedian whose name is Jerry. Or Curb Your Enthusiasm, about the creator of Seinfeld, Larry David, who if I recall is played by a man called Larry. Nor is it anything like Hancock's Half Hour, Roseanne or It's Garry Shandling's Show. No way..."
Today's review in The Guardian mused; "Maybe think of it as a kind of British Curb Your Enthusiasm.
"No, that's clearly ridiculous, an insult to Larry David. But it does sort of work..."
Yesterday's Times' preview was more certain and more enthusiastic; "the funniest and most original new sitcom since Getting On... in the grand tradition of Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David..."
The Times on Saturday put it in similarly illustrious company; "Fiction meets reality, high-life meets mundanity; it’s a path well-trodden on American shows such as Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. They are high benchmarks, although the feel here is much more downmarket, a kind of Royle Family atmosphere..."
Today's Times review namedropped two new references and two - by-now - old friends; "Ever since the American Danny Thomas Show in the Fifties, comedians have liked to play sitcoms about their lives off-set... No one much remembers the BBC’s Kelly Monteith show, although it ran for years in the Seventies, but no one will forget Seinfeld, nor its even more self-referential spin-off Curb Your Enthusiasm."
You can say that again.