![]() ![]() This is full of astute observations, and while it loses a star because I can’t stand it that Julia doesn’t lay down the law to her husband, at no point would I have preferred sticking a fork in my eye. But then Liz (the anti-heroine of the piece who doesn’t give a stuff about being a good mother, brilliantly played by Diane Morgan) tells her that if she hosts a birthday party at home and invites her daughter’s entire class, she can build up childcare favours.Ī disastrous party, needless to say, culminating in an animal entertainer whose show is much too ‘cat-heavy’. OK.’ At least her daughter’s birthday party won’t be a thing, as just a few of them are going to Pizza Express. ![]() She says: ‘Can he swim in his pants? Sorry, can I just ask, did you try calling my husband? You just called me. Her son has forgotten his trunks altogether. We first see her on the stairwell at work taking a phone call from a teacher. Written by Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan, this navigates the traumas of working motherhood and offers a superb cast, headed by Anna Maxwell Martin as Julia, who has desperation in her eyes at all times. Well, true to any woman who has tried to combine a career with childcare and has attempted to dry last week’s swimming kit in time for the next lesson by swinging it around her head. Thank God, thank God, thank God for Motherland, which has returned for a full series following on from the pilot last year, and is not just in command of its comedy chops but creates a world that feels true. Meanwhile, this has, apparently, already been commissioned for a second series. You have to find the laughs in horrific awfulness, not just present the horrific awfulness as the laugh. ‘I had to slam the door three or four times to stop her screaming.’ Nice. The company Daniel works for is owned by an American (Don Johnson), who is a malicious, foul-mouthed sexual harasser and would simply be the world’s most unlikeable person, if the title hadn’t already been won by Daniel himself. That’s the gap that allows the comedy to happen, and also allows us to sympathise. Men Behaving Badly, The Inbetweeners, Alan Partridge, David Brent… all funny, but that’s because we are being invited to laugh at their worldview, and because we understand it comes from a position of ignorance. that old trope.)Ĭan misogyny be funny? It can be. (Quick, quick, Becca’s coming home! Panic stations! Tidy, tidy, tidy. That is, a world where the men go to work and are doctors and bosses while the women are wives, girlfriends, uptight nags. Instead, it’s overacted (by everybody), heavy-handed and appears to be set in a world that might as well be sitcomland, 1972. But this is neither clever nor thoughtful. The film 50/50, starring Seth Rogen, is a comedy about cancer, and it’s funny.
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