I was so looking forward to this - two great actors who generally accept only the very best scripts.
About twenty minutes into the first episode I started grumbling to myself. The conversations between the two were supposed to be naturalistic but I didn't find them convincing. I wasn't at all convinced by Sean Bean's interpretation - the silly exchanges with people, the fixed smile, etc, etc. just didn't ring true to me.
Having said all that, I found the subject matter quite interesting in that it dealt with situations that many people have experienced and which are often over-dramatised in TV and films - deaths, worries about family issues, work colleagues, job worries, etc, etc.
The reviews in the newspapers have been, on the whole, glowing - one even going so far as describing it as a"masterpiece". I certainly wouldn't go that far.