Rob wakes from a nightmare but then feels playful toward half-awake Sharon. Fergal arrives to celebrate his upcoming 40th birthday but is critical of Sharon who is organising the party. Sharon's mother also arrives in town for the party, accompanied by her new boyfriend. Rob chooses not to attend the party, while the party itself is full of surprises. Fran is envious of Chris regarding their respective futures. Rob has a change of heart, choosing to go the party after all, but is encountered by heavy traffic. Rob finally arrives, just as the paramedics are. Sharon ponders whether her mother is having more sex now than she is. Sharon, Rob, and their children go to Boston for a family holiday. They are greeted at the airport by Rob's sister. She tells him that Mia (their mother) died. When Rob and his sister are trying to coordinate the funeral arrangements, he is annoyed with Sharon wanting to continue their holiday as if nothing had happened. When Rob's father turns up for the funeral, he says that his yellow skin is caused by cirrhosis. Rob and Sharon's relationship becomes tenser both before and after the funeral, with Rob expressing his dissatisfaction with their marriage and his life in London. He tells her that he has been offered a job in Boston which he wants to take. Although opposed at first, Sharon agrees that he should take it and she will move to Boston with him. On a beach, with their children asleep in their car, Sharon confesses that she is pregnant. She strips to her underwear and gets in the sea to swim. Rob sees a sign warning of strong riptides and forbidding swimming. He joins her in the sea and they kiss. The final shot pans out from their embrace, showing they are now, far out to sea and swimming towards shore. Rob Delaney, Sharon Horgan for new Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe". Digital Spy. 29 May 2014 . Retrieved 19 January 2015. British Academy Scotland Awards: Winners in 2016". BAFTA. 22 May 2014. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016 . Retrieved 20 July 2017.

On 28 January 2015, the show was renewed for a second series, which aired in October 2015. [9] Jay Hunt, Channel 4's chief creative officer, said: "Catastrophe is a real comedy gem. Sharon and Rob have done a magnificent job and we're already looking forward to series two". [10] Rob is attracted to a new French colleague Olivia Vasseur, who has recently transferred from the company's Paris office. She tells him that she has noticed him looking at her and that she wants to fellate him. He tells his manager Harita that he is quitting, but Harita convinces him to stay by offering him a large pay increase. Sharon is unpleasant and unpopular at the mother and baby group that she attends. She is disappointed when she finds out that her only friend there, Samantha, has left and returned to her job. She meets up with Samantha and has a brief conversation with her, but Samantha finds her needy and soon rejects her. Catastrophe is a British television sitcom first broadcast on 19 January 2015 [1] on Channel 4. It is created, written by, and stars Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, who portray single people Sharon and Rob who become a couple after Sharon unexpectedly becomes pregnant following a fling while Rob is visiting London on a business trip. [2] Carrie Fisher, Ashley Jensen and Mark Bonnar play supporting characters in the series. [2]Horn, John; Lanz, Michelle; Kell, Cameron (12 April 2016). " 'Catastrophe' creators embrace raunchy language but think nudity is too distracting". KPCC - The Frame . Retrieved 13 April 2016. Catastrophe begins with Rob and Sharon enjoying breathless sexual and romantic chemistry that’s soon replaced by something far more dramatic. Discovering that Sharon is pregnant, Rob decides to join a woman he barely knows in the deep water. The story of their subsequent relationship is of two people committing to each other before they get to know each other – which is actually how all marriages work, because however well you think you know someone, you don’t really until you try to build a life together. Sharon awakes in the night worrying about her pregnancy, and the state of the world. She is frequently simultaneously horny and depressed. In a bookshop, she bumps into old flame Owen, whom she dumped years ago. Owen takes her to dinner at a restaurant. Owen tells her that he is in a long-term relationship with a successful author who is now pregnant by him. His success makes Sharon feel like a failure. Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series - 2017". Emmys.com. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved 20 July 2017. Rob and Sharon deal with addiction, infidelity and death with equal parts patience and love and resilience. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

The series was officially commissioned by Channel 4 in May 2014 after a successful pilot the previous year. [5] The BBC had previously turned down the series after reading the script. [6]RTS Programme Awards 2017". Royal Television Society. 24 October 2016 . Retrieved 28 February 2022. There is, however, one set of statistics in which the UK is still booming. Net migration. According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, the number of people coming to the UK hit an estimated 672,000 in the year to June, while the figure for the whole of 2022 was revised up to an astonishing 745,000. Rob and Sharon argue. They then have sex, during which their son Frankie and their dog Mabel walk in. That comes at a time when we were meant to reduce the economy’s dependence on cheap imported labour, not increase it. The political class spends so much time obsessing over minor tweaks to the tax system of the sort the Chancellor announced in his Autumn Statement. But we keep ignoring the far larger problem. Our dependence on mass migration is turning into an economic, social and political catastrophe – and until we start getting to grips with that nothing will start to improve. I started to watch this years ago and stopped. I can't remember why. This time around, I was liking it, but then I just got dragged down by how toxic the two were to each other at times and to people around them. I don't know anyone like that, nor would I tolerate them if I did. It's hard to like a series when you can't stand the protagonists...but there is a lot of funny lines in this, so there's that.