To want to be an ITV/BBC drama kind of Mum?

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You know the kind!

Well educated, big beautiful house, looks expensively put together but in a very effortless kind of way. Usually returns home from work to their very good looking husband making an elaborate dinner in their fabulous kitchen. With a tea towel over his shoulder or apron on. Loads of cool art and furniture in the house. At some point will probably host some sort of bbq/garden party in their enormous garden where everyone will be holding enormous glasses of wine and touching none of the fabulous food.

I'd quite like to be one of these, do they even exist in real life?! Obviously without my husbands affair being exposed at said bbq or any actual drama...

The sun always shines on tv Op!

I get where you’re coming from but do you also want to have the dark secret at the heart of their seemingly perfect life that inevitably kicks off during the course of the drama?

I started watching ‘ Dr Foster ‘ again the other day. Ticked all your boxes op! Full fridge and an immaculate house when they both worked full time and had a child as well. All the houses featured were amazing.

They always wear floaty linen layers and fabulous statement jewellery. I've tried, but I am absolutely not a floaty layers person, sadly.

No, no I do not 😄

Dr Foster was one of the ones I had in mind! Her house was fabulous even if her husband was an arse.

It’s on channel five , but ‘ little disasters’ is like this with one or two of the people featured in that. Although not all the mums are perfect.
It’s made me want mullioned windows ( when I win big on the lottery and air con)

I’m the mum who runs around in Motherland, unfortunately… I quite liked Bridget Jones’s house in the most recent movie.

The advert families always looked so happy when I was child!!

Trying buying floaty white items and not getting them dirty as well. These women manage it with little babies around!

Unless you’re very lucky, it will be more like Outnumbered.

I liked Dr Foster , but the houses were so amazing.
I prefer houses on tv that are normal and untidy and not huge with islands and flow through rooms and gold taps and en suites ( although I wouldn’t mind one myself really ! )

Or The Stepford Wives!!!

I always wonder how their houses are always absolutely immaculate when all they do is drink wine or spend 23 hours out of the house dealing with some sort of life changing event which means they no longer have any form of childcare duties, shopping or housework to do. It's quite impressive really

The houses in The Split are amazing. Relationships less so

Yep, lots of white wine on the go. No sign of a big delivery from Tesco , it just appears.

Dr Foster’s awful cheating husband went on to buy an even bigger new house with a pool. I never forgave him for that! It was lovely . She even broke into it and he was scared of water as well , but she didn’t get to drown him ( unfortunately)

You'd also get to have a large glass of wine on the go every evening, without any visible negative health effects

Nope, they all drink like a fish and stay healthy and slim and no hangovers.

Well dressed, good looking women, with handsome husbands and lovely houses absolutely do exist.

I would like it as long as it's not the Harlan Coven type of drama, because I don't want to end up buried in the woods by the local football coach.

They all cook elaborate breakfasts during the week, and then the husband/kids run downstairs and don’t have time to eat it because they’re late for work/school.

Usually starring James Nesbitt as a baddie or a policeman.

They look perfectly toned despite a 14hr/ day job and never have that crazy hair day/ ‘look fat in my clothes’ day either.