Anna Maxwell Martin
- English
- Actor
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Middle-class mums are in the not-so-flattering spotlight for a second season of Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh and Helen Linehan's comedy on parenthood at the school gates. As term starts up, there is fresh blood in the form of high-flying mum of four Meg (straight-talking Tanya Moodie); she has conspicuously moved in opposite Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin), who continues to juggle a hectic career with the efforts of keeping up with the other parents. A gleeful takedown of competitive parenting culture.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 7th October 2019Motherland series 2 preview
It's a welcome return for Motherland, the comedy that does for parenthood what The Thick Of It did for politics - revealing in ugly detail the stresses and panic behind every hastily improvised decision made by the tired and harassed.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 7th October 2019Last night's view: Alison Rowat on Motherland
Review of the BBC Two sitcom.
Alison Rowat, The Herald, 7th October 2019Motherland review
Parenting comedy returns with sad and angry hidden depths.
Ed Cumming, The Independent, 7th October 2019Motherland, series 2, review
This astute, spiky sitcom conjures stress so vivid that it's difficult to watch.
Sarah Carson, i Newspaper, 7th October 2019Motherland, series 2 episode 1 review
Why has it descended into farce?
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 7th October 2019Does Motherland need to pit women against each other?
The BBC2 sitcom expertly deconstructs traditional representations of motherhood, only to lazily cast its characters as school-run Mean Girls.
Fiona Sturges, i Newspaper, 5th October 2019Anna Maxwell Martin interview
'My kids hate watching me in Motherland!'.
What's On TV, 3rd October 2019BBC confirms third series for Motherland
BBC Two has ordered a further series of comedy Motherland. The ensemble sitcom's second series begins next week.
British Comedy Guide, 1st October 2019Anna Maxwell Martin - last seen giving Superintendent Hastings an almighty tongue-lashing in series five of Line of Duty - reprises her altogether different role in this wonderfully shambolic comedy: as a perpetually struggling middle-class mother shunned by the PTA and entirely unsupported by her husband. Happily, Diane Morgan also returns as the mellow, completely hands-off mum Liz, while Sherlock's Tanya Moodie joins the fold as Meg, who causes a stir at the school gates.
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 31st August 2019