Flowers
- TV comedy drama
- Channel 4
- 2016 - 2018
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Dark comedy following the eccentric Flower family and their struggle to live harmoniously. Stars Olivia Colman, Julian Barratt, Daniel Rigby, Sophia Di Martino, Will Sharpe and more.
Streaming rank this week: 905
Episode menu
Series 2, Episode 1
Further details
It's a couple of years after the end of Series 1, and Maurice and Deborah are on a caravan holiday. Maurice is on medication and seems in a better place, while Deborah is about to become the published author of a book about his depression. Shun is drinking away the summer days, Donald has started a plumbing business, and Amy's band The Pink Cuttlefish Orchestra are coming to stay at the ramshackle Flowers' house.
Notes
On its first broadcast, this episode was combined with Episode 2 to form an hour long block. The credits for this episode were shown at the end of the second episode.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 11th June 2018
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Olivia Colman | Deborah |
| Julian Barratt | Maurice |
| Daniel Rigby | Donald |
| Sophia Di Martino | Amy |
| Will Sharpe | Shun |
| Colin Hurley | Barry |
| Alistair Green | Tommy |
| Helen Cripps | Matilda |
| Harriet Walter | Hylda |
| Sophia Di Martino | Bertha |
| Kathryn Hunter | Wendy |
| Daniel Rigby | Egbert |
| Colin Hurley | Piotr |
| Will Sharpe | Greta |
| Julian Barratt | Friedrich |
| Olivia Colman | Valerie |
| Anna O'Grady | Dolores |
| Amie Buhari | Pan |
| Mariam Haque | Henri |
| Maite Jáuregui | Vera |
| Sophie Brooke | Avelaine |
| Leila Hoffman | Isadora |
| Ramon Tikaram | Clive |
| Will Sharpe | Writer |
| Alice Tyler | Script Editor |
| Katie Carpenter | Script Producer |
| Will Sharpe | Director |
| Sam Pinnell | Producer |
| Naomi De Pear | Executive Producer |
| Will Sharpe | Associate Producer |
| Holly Pullinger | Line Producer |
| Selina MacArthur | Editor |
| Luana Hanson | Production Designer |
| Catherine Willis | Casting Director |
| Jamie Cairney | Director of Photography |
| Sam Perry | Costume Designer |
| Sjaan Gillings | Make-up Designer |
| Arthur Sharpe | Composer |
| Alex Streeter | 1st Assistant Director |
Press
Visionary original or specious whimsy? Either way, Will Sharpe's rustic black comedy - which he writes and directs, as well as playing Japanese naif Shun - is completely itself. We are two years on from the first season, and the brittle mental health of author Maurice (Julian Barratt) is threatened by his wife Deborah (Olivia Colman) writing a book about it. Those two, along with Harriet Walter, who joins the cast as a sexually magnetic priest, smother the thought that there's nothing coherent beneath all the wormwoody oddness. Nightly until Friday.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 11th June 2018Flowers series 2 preview
It is certainly a one-of-a-kind programme that will stay with you.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th June 2018Flowers, episode 1 and 2, review
Rejoice as this melancholy curio blooms once again.
Patrick Smith, The Telegraph, 11th June 2018TV review: Flowers, Season 2, Channel 4
Second series of Will Sharpe's dysfunctional family comedy-drama - starring Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt - ramps up the mayhem.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 8th June 2018