Amandaland

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Not airing until 5th Feb but who else is as excited as me for this?!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vnWbDVho03w

I've just watched the first 3 episodes.
Really enjoying it.
Better than Motherland, I reckon. The surrounding characters are more believable / less extreme.

I like how Anne has grown and is not so submissive.
Of course Amanda is annoying and ridiculous, but that's sort of the point.
I like all the new characters. Very well cast.

I've just watched the Car Boot Sale episode when Della says about Anne 'she hates the Irish' 😆

It was an example of the type of comment "Julias" come out with. Julia did in fact try to hit on Amanda for non returnable favours - Amanda was better at deflecting them than Anne, Kevin or even Liz but that doesn't negate the one way expectations.

Julia was a user whose primary interest in people was what they can do for her - usually in terms of providing free childminding.

Amanda and Julia tried to muscle in on Anne's car share school run business she had !
Anne was quite productive there I thought

Wasn't a business. It was a carpool.

How can we all watch the same show but see completely different things?!

It also wasn't Amanda - it was Claire and Julia fighting for the car pool spot. Liz's eyeroll when Julia "warns" Annd that Claire is a bit of a user was very funny.

I've watched them all fairly recently due Amandaland being released but they are all on iPlayer still.

I always wondered why Julia didn't just sort out her bloody childcare!

I assumed Anne was running a little business with the school car run thing !
I could have sworn Amanda was after a space too .. it was Claire

Julia could have arranged a child minder for the children !
Her in laws were funny.

I think Julia kept trying to get nannies and it didn’t work out. Remember the psycho nannie? So funny.

The husband always on work jollies and PT sessions was also very relatable. Also the useless in laws that were more of a hindrance than a help.

I loved this - my favourite character was Johannes but they were all great. Preferred it to Motherland, I found Amanda more poignant than Julia

LOL at all the nitpicking on here though! I know loads of people who say they live in Chiswick when it's actually Acton (and vice versa when they want to de-posh themselves). And on the Harlseden-Hounslow thing, people in London do mingle with people in other areas and schools in different boroughs do play matches with each other, In any case, Harlseden to Hounslow really isn't far at all. I have a friend in the former whose dc go to school in the latter, it's very speedy on the Overground.

Yes, I thought the Julia/husband scenario was hilarious and a real statement on how some men behave - and how their partners let them away with it!
Hopefully becoming less of a "thing" with younger couples but definitely something I saw - and experienced myself.

🙈🙈 I can’t remember Claire.

That was the car pool episode. I can only remember Claire being in that episode.

She wasn't a main character. She may have only been in the carpool episode to be honest - certainly didn't have many lines other than the scene in the pub and the after-party party at Anne's house.

I can only remember her because I rewatched all of Motherland recently.

Thank you
will have to rewatch. I remember thr car pool episode but not Claire.

It's been a while since I watched Motherland but I've binged Amandaland. I found it quite entertaining actually and really liked it. One question though, did Amanda's children go to the same school as Julia's in Motherland as she mentioned in Amandaland that they were in private but in Motherland the school was pretty much state?

They were all still in primary in Motherland. One of the last episodes centred round choosing secondaries.

@KilkennyCats oh yes I remember when Julia was pretending to be religious to get her kids into a school

Haha, that was classic 😂

That was a funny episode!
I'm binge watching the whole of Motherland again, then I'll binge Amandaland after that, for the 3rd time!!! Yes, Claire was hanging onto Annes car window, with Julia, while Anne was trying to drive away, both competing for the car pool position!!! Have just watched that episode! Then Julia stares Claire down and marches off!

There were a few Motherland episodes where a random other parent featured and then we never saw them again. As well as Claire there was James the knitwear entrepreneur in the swimming party episode, and Caroline Lacey who didn’t remember Julia in the auction of promises episode.

I just binged watched the whole series for the second time and laughed all the way through. The Johanna’s character grew on me so I hope they bring him back in it one way or another !

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Yes, Sharon Horgan is writer on an episode or two!