Bad Mother - the new comedy series exclusive to Mumsnet

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Hello all,

Come and have a look at the very first episode of , a new comedy web series which we'll be showing exclusively on Mumsnet over the next six weeks.

It's a very relatable (and very sweary) show that we hope you'll enjoy - each episode is about five minutes long, so just right for watching with a (microwaved) cuppa while the kids run wild entertain themselves.

We'll remind you on our Mumsnet Facebook page every time a new episode goes live - so if you're not yet following us, now's the time to do so.

The series follows a beleaguered stay-at-home mum (Star Stories' Laura Patch, with Kevin Bishop as her husband) who's trying her best not to bugger up this parenting lark. Each episode tackles a particularly challenging parenting scenario - so if you've ever muttered under your breath about other people's children, dreaded yet another playdate, or felt some affinity with the phrase 'benign neglect', we think you'll find something to snigger over in Bad Mother.

Let us know what you think.

MNHQ

Why are posters calling her a 'slummy mummy', she seems kind of normal.

It's in Crouch End - the dad will be coining it in!!
It was watchable, but also very cliched.
I'm a bit like that with other people's kids though - I love mine & enjoy some of their friends' company (teens), but am not a fan of every child just cos I'm a mum.

Should have had a night scene of her pegging the washing out to get darked on.

Marking place to watch later

@nickname0 disappointed.

I only clicked the thread to see where you were going with that...

Cheese

That was funnier than the whole episode!

Cheese haha now that could be a completely different bad mother channel

Was OK, but too middle class focussed I thought.

Erm, I can see it getting air time bit seemed to me to be a poorer cousin of fleabag or catastrophe?

Crouch End ? I thought it was Muswell Hill.

Definitely crouch end, they showed the clock.

I thought it was Hampstead or Highgate - there was an advert for the Ham & High. Am I showing dreadful ignorance now dahling?

It's somewhat tired and unoriginal.

all a bit MN cliche, white, middle-class Londoners. The comedy was all pretty obvious and telegraphed.

"She had plenty of time to shut the fucker up as it was so obvious where it was headed."

Yes Bree van der Kamp would have nipped that right in the bud - "A word with you in the kitchen, Orson dear!"

Husband character was just too much of an arse to make it work for me. Some of the things she did rang true and but he just seemed to be a bit of a update of Frank Spencer. Relatability bubble popped as soon as he started doing what he did in front of someone he didn't know. As it's Mumsnet I'll expect someone to point out to her that she has a "husband problem" by episode 2.

Might be nit picking here but if Kits mum had been waiting for an hour why was the dad only just giving her a drink?

Why was the husband sat in the house with another woman drinking wine in the afternoon of a week day. Especially if he is supposed to be "coining" it in. Surely he would be at work.

Given the character of the dad I get back to the fact that no one that much of an idiot would be able to earn enough to keep that house a sahm and all that booze.

It was moderately funny at the beginning but progressed to unfunny. I think the comic timing and authenticity were off a bit. good idea though, but feeds the stereotype of MN users? & a bit excessively sweary? I am actually quite similar to that character

What would be great is Smack the Pony mums edition

I think it's not witty or sharp enough. I think that's the problem. It's rather spelled out and obvious. Also like it would be moderately funny to those who think mums are like this but aren't actually mums themselves. Maybe. Also excess daytime wine gives me terrible hangovers these days.

It was 'relatable' though could do with slightly less spelled out comedy (here endeth critique)

it was okay, but I did cringe at ramming in words like the helicopter parent bit when hardly anyone would say it in an actual conversation.

Why was the husband sat in the house with another woman drinking wine in the afternoon of a week day. Especially if he is supposed to be "coining" it in. Surely he would be at work.

He was looking after the kids wasn't he? Maybe he too the afternoon holiday to do so

Liked it. I think it will have broad appeal.

But where were the kids. Very very quiet house and again get back to why would someone who is supposed to be coining it in take time off to look after the kids whilst his wife went to see a careers consultant never mind pouring him and another woman large glasses of wine.

The fathers I know who have a large pay packet are workaholics who would probably tell their wives to get a friend or a baby sitter or the nanny to look after the children.

The whole thing was badly thought out.
We are not all so sozzled that we don't notice these inconsistencies