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

[SaveTheChiddlers]

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...

There was a BBC series a few years ago called Gold-digger or something similar, largely set in Devon. The two
main houses were stunning! One very large, traditional and cosy, the other super modern and sleek. I’d happily live in either please!

You do know he is sleeping with your best friend's teenage daughter and you're about to realise you are a lesbian and your perfect eldest son is a serial killer, dont you?

Prove it.

Our house is probably closer to the Royle family. It always looked so cosy any way

Can I be Keira Knightley in the spy one? That looked very glam. And her children didn't take until midnight to go to fucking sleep, and then wake up at 7am demanding someone play Star Wars with them.

Bisto

Just make sure you aren’t in certain on-going drama series. You could be parenting from a market stall and it’s obligatory to turn up for every social event at the local pub. Oh and you’ve slept with almost all the men and have a whole step family about to turn up.

I was so confused as to how everyone in Dr Foster was so rich.

I don’t know, their lives always seem to be a bit mundane until the thing that happens to make the drama kicks off, anyway. Comfortable and attractive, but dull. I’d rather be Dana Scully or Buffy something!

Not sure how Mr Foster ( in Dr Foster ) managed that house with the pool, but maybe his girlfriend’s parents helped them and he had a good job I think ? I can’t remember, but I know his place was gorgeous.
They all had shed loads of money didn’t they.

"But I made eggs!"

American shows are the worst for this. You’ll have literal towers of pancakes, a pig’s worth of bacon and a vat of scrambled eggs and no one will touch any of it. They might grab a slice of toast as they run out of the door at best.

I would never make any kind of cooked breakfast for anyone that hadn't agreed to it first, preferably in writing 😁

Ha , started watching Little Disasters last night and it was just like this

Can you not take some of things you see and add to your own life? So invite people around for dinner or display some art you like in your house?

Some days I'd take a dark secret to have a kitchen that was always immaculate whenever you walked into it, despite being wall to ceiling glass-shine surfaces like the driven snow. I really think I would.

I used to think that all English families were like the drama families! I grew up in a small flat, in Scotland with a single mother 😂 all my peers lived the same life, so wee me thought it was very English to have a Mum, Dad, brother, dog and house with stairs!

I'd love a Split type house. There seemed to be a run of dramas with the main family living in massive modern boxy Grand Designs type houses, often surrounded by trees and with huge plate glass windows and no blinds or curtains. Any bugger could peer in.

I think my dark secret would have to be the Faustian pact / Matrix sell-out I'd entered into in order to get that life 🙂

Real life is exactly like Outnumbered. I couldn't watch it when DC were small, I felt like I'd already lived it all day long and to relax by reliving it on screen was too much. It's brilliant, though.

Those kind of windows give me the heeby jeebies.

Whats hilarious is that I read this and thought yeah, I'm like that.

Then I realised, am I fk. 🤣🤣

I'm educated, and we have art and cool furniture. But I'm never "well put together " and my house is a tip. Don't even mention the garden. 🫣

My husband is good looking because men age better, him in particular. But I have developed some kind of aversion to cooking. I just cba.

I love this thread tho.

That's because they have their vineyard

Generally their lives then fall apart because of a dark secret/burglars kill their husband/super natural forces/child has horrible illness …. No I’ll stay in the real world and my house is easy enough to clean as smaller

Probably amazing because they’re barely ever home and people like that would 100% have cleaners…

I prefer Outnumbered, Here We Go and Motherland, their houses are actually real.