Motherland. To say I thought it would be funnier is an understatement.

[JMSA]

I've just started watching it today, and I'm on episode 5 of Season 1.

So far I've had one 'sort of' laugh out loud. But I don't think I can watch any more.

Kevin - irritating to the point of wanting to tear my hair out.

The Absent Husband - just why? And who would put up with that?

Julia - pretty good.

Liz - probably the least unfunny thing about it 👍

Is it just me who's not getting it?

I love Motherland, it’s not side splitting funny, but it’s a warm and relatable comedy. Love the part when the school ring Julia at work about some forgotten swimming trunks and she asks the receptionist if she’d rung her husband to ask the same question and it’s always no. I get this so much. DC school always ring me when I’m at work and never try to call my DH. Because he’s a man so will be busy at work.

Mrs Browns Boys however, I don’t get it.

I managed one episode, crock of shit.

this is worth a watch… had me in stitches the first few seasons
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Oh I dunno, I find it funny despite finding it hard to warm to any of the characters at first! I think that's part of it's slightly off-kilter "charm". They're all hateful or pathetic, and Julia in particular is vile (especially to her poor mother). But as time goes on and you get to know them all, they all have a story to tell and horrid Julia's lovelorn pining for the builder and her yearning for romantic love was quite touching.

Just me I expect.

But they don't. Julia always looks like she's been dragged through a hedge backwards and her clothes never match. She's often in joggers with her hair in a lopsided ponytail.

Liz just wears jeans, a t shirt and coat and Anne a similar sort of thing.

You see that is the only episode I've not found funny, and can't rewatch. I thought it was cringe-makingly awful. I just don't find slapstick funny at all.

I think Kevin was supposed to be irritating, and we weren’t supposed to like Julia or find her relatable.

Where the frick is Amandaland, that’s what I want to know.

The episode where they head off to the holiday house and Kevin brings a pig on the spit is hilarious.

It has entire tribute acts around the English speaking world.

Erm, it was Garry. The second r makes all of the difference.

To be fair, I don’t think Julia would bother being your friend unless you were of some use to her. She’s not supposed to be likeable. 🙂

I absolutely love Motherland but why on earth would you binge watch 5 of something you didn’t like that much? Who has that kind of patience/time? It stays the same- if you don’t like it by episode 5 I’d cut it loose.

I love Motherland and I don't have kids.

Working Moms is funny but far too glossy to be even remotely believable.

I will happily watch Fleabag, Here we go, Ghosts, Gavin and Stacey, Phoneshop, The IT Crowd, Alan Partridge, Peep Show, Black Books, The Office (UK and US), Extras, The Inbetweeners, Green Wing, Father Ted, Spaced, The Cleaner, Brooklyn 99, Fawlty Towers, Rising Damp, Parks and Rec, Curb, What we do in the shadows, Toast of London, Modern Family etc etc etc all on a loop. I love funny tv and I would say I will watch virtually anything.

Mrs Brown's Boys remains a mystery, however. I've tried not to be a snob about it but I don't know a single person who's watched it and enjoyed it. It's completely perplexing.

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Erm, it was Garry. The second r makes all of the difference

Much like our own dear Gregg Wallace and his 2 Gs

I wanted to watch it. But i found Julia irritating to the point of making it unbearable to watch

It's incredibly cringey

I can't STAND the parents in outnumbering. Terrible show. Just awful!

Love it, but then I like dry subtle humour.

Yup

I felt the same way about it. It started when I had young kids. If I wanted to watch all that school gate shit I'd just go to my own kids school.

Yes me too. I love Anna Maxwell Martin in most things, but not this.

I just love it. I've never related to someone more than I've related to Julia when she's trying to prep Christmas dinner in the first Christmas special. The hysterical rants, the shit falling out of the fridge every time she opens it, the useless in-laws and their constant 'minor' requests. Even the mum wearily saying 'all right Julia' with the air of having heard the ranting a million times before. I felt like I was watching myself and I can watch that episode over and over again and still find it funny. I promise I'm not always like Julia but when I'm stressed we are the same person.

So I guess whether you find it funny or not is related to how much you identify with one or more of the characters?

The very very last episode, I cried and cried. So bloody sad ....the tickets 🥺🥺🥺

@JMSA Have you watched Catastrophe? It’s written by one of the writers of Motherland, and she’s the main character in catastrophe. It’s much funnier, but also quite dark