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Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

gavinashdown I'm not an avid TV viewer but having watched the first episode on Catch-up we then watched the other 5. I would describe this as a cross between Gavin and Stacey and Bridget Jones. I thought it was very well thought out as far as the situation, plot and characterization was concerned and it was nice to see less famous actors in the roles doing a terrific job of comedy combined with those "cringe moments" you might find in The Office or Gavin and Stacey. Anyone who has ever had children will relate to this and will have experienced the characters involved, obviously caricatured and comedicly enhanced for the show. Overall I thought it was extremely entertaining and would be most surprised if it did not get a second series. Certainly streets ahead of some of the other rubbish on TV these days. I look forward to series two.

Good-Will If this is even vaguely reminiscent of what London has become then I'm glad that I left in 1993. None of these characters have any spine, balls, common sense or any semblance of real human beings. They're all infinitely slappable and I have no sympathy for any of them since they can't actually stand up for themselves in any way at all. How Linehan got involved in this fiasco is beyond me since he's one of the greatest comic writers of our generation. Maybe his wife henpecked him into attaching his name to it. The laughs are few and far between, and filling the gaps is some sort of what's meant to be observational humour but it falls flat when you're watching supposedly intelligent people do stupid things. My girlfriend forced me to watch it and even she was getting racked off towards the end. This isn't comedy. It's tragedy.

goldenrobkill This is one of the funniest series i've seen since Peep show stopped airing. The characters are all hilarious, there is never a time where i'm disappointed when we have to be with a specific character other than the bitching from the over worked moms which comes out as angsty hilarity, your chest tightens with the darkness of the humour and the expectation of the dreadful thing they're going to say; Julia is hard nosed, selfish. Liz is sarky single mom who's had a hard life, and Kevin is a cringing, lovable, pushover, which emphasise the reality of school mom's. all the side characters are equally fleshed out and have there own awful personalities, but you understand where they come from, the sarcy backhanded comments remind you of my own experience as a child.

ianlouisiana recruited from "W1A".It is that dire. It looks as if the makers have looked at some of the best British TV comedies of the last 15 years,cherrypicked from the casts and flushed the funny bits away. There is nothing remotely funny in a woman having a meltdown driving her car full - pelt along narrow suburban streets whilst her children play unconcernedly in the back, and behaving frantically in front of the Head Teacher. This is desperate stuff,and to be fair,some older members of the cast seem somewhat aghast at what they are being asked to do,but others plough on regardless,hoping this will soon be forgotten and just glad the cheques cleared. Don't get me wrong,middle - class mums are fair game - but "Motherland" is too smug by half and whilst ostensibly mocking the pretensions of The School Run it is actually reinforcing them. Look up old episodes of "Doc Martin", "Green Wing","Miranda" etc and see these excellent actors in more suitable surroundings. 10pm on a Monday night is a good slot for "Motherland" where,with any luck it will quietly slip away to die.