Mum

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Anyone catch this with the brilliant Lesley Manville?

Reminds me of Gavin and Stacy a bit, not laugh out of comedy but it's all in the slightly too long pauses

Can't wait for the next one!

First one is on iPlayer atm.

On planner - Havnt seen yet

Fureal? Just watched it and thought it was awful. The female characters were terrible, even "mum" was annoying but we can cut her some slack as her husband just died. Stupid bimbo, snobby cow and angry old bag. None of the men were anything like as bad

Achooooooooooo!!!!

Does that Michael guy from sunshine on leith fancy Kathy?

I found it sooo slow. The bit where they were eating popcorn was awful i had to turn the sound down

Just watched episode 2. I quite like this now. It's clearly going to be one of those slow burn romance things isn't it?!

Not annoying.... Yet!

Groovee- yes that was the point of the whole episode

Watched the first 2 episodes on catch up - I quite liked it although would prefer the son and girlfriend characters to be toned down a bit. give them a bit of common sense!

Lesley Manville is great, as usual

It's fabulous. It has a depth and pathos that's lacking in a lot of shows. The unrequited love was superbly acted. The ditzy girlfriend traumatised by her ex is both sledghammer full on and subtle - superbly acted. The evil girlfriend of the brother is slightly ham fisted but reminded me of my mil - people are like that in real life. Can't wait for the next episode tbh.

frillyflower - I think the whole thing of her losing her glasses, was she was very preocupied with her husbands funeral.

I really like Mum, and Lesley Manfield is just perfect. The second episode wasn't as strong as the first, but I hope things will be good for the rest of them. Its just a nice, subtle comedy. I think some programmes are just so very over the top and feel the need to spoon feed you.

As for I Want My Wife Back...thats just plain awful.

Oops *Manville

I agree JustHappy. It's one of the best shows on at the moment. The highlight of the second episode for me was the scene with Pauline and Cathy. The tone went from comical to poignant in about two seconds and was totally believable.

Apparently next week we find out more about Kelly's past.

I love it. I wanted to kill Kelly. I know someone who is as stupid yet as patronising as her. I don't know how I keep my hands from warmly embracing her round the throat. Jason is a shallow stupid cunt too.

Not as good as the first episode but will defiantly carry on watching.

I gave it another go with episode 2 and I still think it's dire. Awful female characters. Not funny either. So I will bow out and not spoil the thread any further !

I quite like it, it's gentle, unchallenging and well observed.

I love the interaction between Cathy and Kelly.

And I know people in RL like most of the characters

Omg Kelly's mum

Cathy's politeness in that episode was driving me mad so I'm glad she pointed out to Kelly's mum how horrible she was to her daughter.

I couldn't get into episode 3!

She was biding her time,she did well. I need to channel her more often, I explode too quickly

The phone call to millionaire made me cringe with every fibre of my being !!

Kelly's mum was Rainie in EastEnders, similar kind of character too!

I want Michael to just ask Cathy out for a drink.
The call to the millionaire, just awful. Pauline has to be the worst character in a comedy ever.

I just love this. I find all the characters with the possible exception of the son either grow on me (Cathy, Kelly, Michael, Cathy's brother) or grate on me (Pauline is fabulously awful) every episode. The end of episode 3 when Kelly's mum realised what a bitch she'd been but Kellt still got it wrong was perfect.

I seem to love it and hate it in equal measure now after episode 3 🤔 I'll carry on watching but it's an odd one.

Up til now Kelly made me cringe with her rude comments and bimbo act.

Then I watched the episode with her mum, and suddenly everything fell into place. Admittedly I have had a glass of but that scene actually made me cry. Lesley Manville is brilliant.