Motherland - series 2

[southeastdweller]

The new series is back next Monday on BBC2 at 10.00. Anyone else planning on watching?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05j1jkp

Love this show! Also only watched the first one, but I may be tempted with more tonight. I agree that I want to see more of the actual parenting. I think Meg is a great addition as a character, but not sure the actress is the right fit for it. Love Kev’s comments about his wife. ‘She came down to see us one day! For lunch....’ and that age was ‘babysitting’

*she. Not age.

I've become a school secretary since the first series so I'm going to model myself on Mrs Lamb

Mrs Lamb is a legend!

I'm on S2 e2 and loving it so far. I feel like the characters are all moving away from archetypes and towards being more three dimensional. Love crazy crazy Meg and the way she put Alpha Mummy in her place.

Mrs lamb is funny!

Meg is much better in the later ones.

I did enjoy Ep1 but had to suspend disbelief to do so, lol. Felt no particular urge to binge watch, but will watch.

*I will be watching weekly as I don’t binge and think enjoy t more having to wait

Can we not have any spoilers for the series please*

I echo this as i too don't like bingeing on iplayer but would rather watch one prog a week to make it last..so yeah no spoilers please!

Hi fives @boosey

There's going to be a third series!

www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5504/motherland_series_3/

Scanned past the spoilers because I’ve only watched episode one so far. I agree that the new mum character was a bit too much. I loved series one because it was so true to life

Also the single mum friend has has something done to her face so that distracted me.

Christ, me too. I said to my husband “Her face! What’s happened to her face?”

Bit of an unexpected treat, Anthony Head popping up like that.

He just gets more gorgeous, doesn't he?

Quite fancy Kevin aswell

Oh it's excellent! I binge-watched the whole thing over two nights. Meg ends up being a really solid character as the series goes on. No spoilers though, promise.

I can’t believe the main character Julia is the scary chief of police person in Line of Duty......great actress.

@Collision which series of Line of Duty?

bluewavescrashing the latest series, 5 I think?

Actually i found Kevin almost fanciable this time around too, so i take back my earlier comment. Then again i now have a crush on a dad who's like a much fitter version of him. And yes Liz has had something done - lip fillers?

@Collision - she did an amazing horror mini-series called 'Midwinter of the Spirit' a few years back as well, and she's Beelzebub in 'Good Omens'. She's fab - very versatile.

I fancy Kevin and the actor can play horrible characters too. Nice to see AH too ; his a mumsnet favourite.
( mumsnet is mentioned so I think that the actresses are on here , or the writers .. ! 😉)

Yes the Linehans are both blatant MNers. I don't know if it's just me but i feel the show actually has more of a Norwich feel to it than a London one - even though i think it's officially set in Acton? I wonder if it's the subtle effect of their bringing up kids in Norfolk? We're certainly not short on #ShitShops or even women who miraculously hold down their own businesses in London whilst also somehow bringing up 5 kids here and having a wild social life at the same time.

Its filmed in North London but i dont know where its supposed to be.

Has anyone seen this? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07gy83t 😄

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2019/04/23/line-of-duty-welcomes-motherlands-anna-maxwell-martin-to-cast-for-remainder-of-series-5-9287648/amp/

Series 5 of Line of Duty - last two episodes

@EachandEveryone - I watched that a couple of months ago after we'd had a bit of a sofa saga and loved it! :)

Ooh thanks, I did watch series 5 but the fact that the actress also played Julia completely passed me by! I may have to watch again (no hardship really).