Motherland

2017

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8| 0h30m| TV-MA| en| More Info
Released: 07 November 2017 Canceled
Producted By: Merman
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05j1jkp
Synopsis

Sitcom about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive and unromantic side of parenting.

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VividSimon Simply Perfect
Micitype Pretty Good
ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
shaneshoots A London state school with a 'no musilms' policy and blacks allowed in only if they've attained something near to middle-class status (and promise to be mostly silent throughout).In this London the white upper middle-class mothers, living in houses valued at around £2,000,000, pour scorn on their spawn for being born.The writers shamefully adhere to the BBC's conservative policy of portraying the white working class as lazy, emotionally unstable alcoholics deserving of your pity. In fact the show's only working class mum (a single mum of course) abuses the school's breakfast club facility just so that she can go back to bed for longer.Lastly the stay-at-home dad. Instead of being a bastion of feminism, his example a step towards emancipation and parity, he is portrayed as a pathetic cuckold, constantly humiliated for cheap laughs; in one episode he actually throws another man's trousers out of a swimming pool window in a fit of pique.This is not a show made by someone that understands modern London, or that has their finger on the pulse, in fact they probably have their head up their arse inside a shitty echo chamber.
frukuk Measured against the perfect Pulling (also co-created and co-written by Sharon Horgan), this first series/season fails to live up to the promise shown by the pilot.It feels reasonably true to life, but the comedy is missing; so it seems more like a documentary (or "structured reality") than a situation comedy.The one redeeming feature is the excellent performance by Diane Morgan.
ianlouisiana recruited from "W1A".It is that dire. It looks as if the makers have looked at some of the best British TV comedies of the last 15 years,cherrypicked from the casts and flushed the funny bits away. There is nothing remotely funny in a woman having a meltdown driving her car full - pelt along narrow suburban streets whilst her children play unconcernedly in the back, and behaving frantically in front of the Head Teacher. This is desperate stuff,and to be fair,some older members of the cast seem somewhat aghast at what they are being asked to do,but others plough on regardless,hoping this will soon be forgotten and just glad the cheques cleared. Don't get me wrong,middle - class mums are fair game - but "Motherland" is too smug by half and whilst ostensibly mocking the pretensions of The School Run it is actually reinforcing them. Look up old episodes of "Doc Martin", "Green Wing","Miranda" etc and see these excellent actors in more suitable surroundings. 10pm on a Monday night is a good slot for "Motherland" where,with any luck it will quietly slip away to die.
Chris Came across this rather by accident when flicking through the television for something to watch, and gave it a chance.Motherland was far more funny than the vast majority of shows around at the moment. Far better than the toilet humour of many panel shows and the repetitive and predictable gags of sitcoms like Big Bang Theory and devoid of the cringe inducing snippets of canned laughter which nowadays run alongside weak comedies to make viewers think it is funny. Motherland knew what sort of show it wanted to be and the story it wanted to tell, and didn't deviate throughout the pilot episode. The episode was full of humour throughout and enough drama to keep the story going and feeling fresh, and didn't have to rely on the old humour fallback of "child says something funny" clichéd trope, popularised by things such as Kids Say the Darndest Things and use effectively in Outnumbered, but the world does not need another Outnumbered.Motherland was a raw, entertaining and an ultimately funny TV show, which I am looking forward to watching more of. It would be a real shame if the show isn't taken on for further filming.

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