Neither does the over-attentive service.
"You've got highs and lows and you try to disguise that – you become inattentive, over-attentive when you're trying to cover up.
The best came last in the form of a pudding recommended by one of myriad waiters, all of whom stayed the right side of over-attentive.
Early Saturday Lives, she now admits, were too bitty, had too many parts, were "over-sentimental" and were ruined, she says, by her over-attentive script.
GFW: Well what concerns me is that universities are ingesting young people, many of whom have been raised by over-attentive, over-protective parents who then become helicopter parents, hovering over their children even though they go to college.
She observes finely, too, the way working mothers are needily over-attentive to their children, compared to comfortably off-hand, permanent mothers, but mercilessly sends up 'Mother Superiors', whose children are their careers.
Or perhaps, what with the strong and abundant hair tied loosely in a bun, and the jaw running in an uninterrupted arc from the careful chin to the over-attentive ear, it was his sitter's profile that brought to mind those Victorian painters.
Fans hoping for more head-smackingly stupid behaviour from over-attentive doctor Katie, brief-dropping solicitor Siobhan, randy party planner Jessica and muffin merchant Trudi may be disappointed by the downbeat state of affairs, but the team behind the four-part series hopes the new sober mood will be more emotionally realistic.
Pryce is an attentive father who also looks over-attentive, in fact fleshy: he comes up too close to his older daughters, cursing Zoe Waites's Goneril by pressing his lips upon hers and later giving Jenny Jules's Regan the same treatment.
An over-attentive family member, a careless moment while burying a victim, a slip-up by medical staff coping with stress and heat - a single small mistake in basic hygiene can allow the virus to slip from one human host to another.
