Motherland
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two / BBC One
- 2016 - 2022
- 20 episodes (3 series)
Comedy about middle-class parenthood and juggling kids, school, and other parents. Stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Paul Ready, Lucy Punch, Philippa Dunne and more.
- Series 1, Episode 2 repeated Thursday at 10pm on BBC2
Streaming rank this week: 148
Press clippings Page 5
I wish Kevin wasn't such a damaging cliche
The programme risks putting men off childcare and parental leave.
Matthew Jenkin, i Newspaper, 31st May 2021All of life can be found in a good sitcom
Highbrow dramas and earnest documentaries are often held up as mirrors but shrewd historians know to look at comedy.
Libby Purves, The Times, 31st May 2021TV review: Motherland, BBC2
Needless to say the performances are all great.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st May 2021Motherland review
This show has become much more than a series of skits at the school gates. I hope it runs for years.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 25th May 2021Motherland series three review
Sharon Horgan's angry baby is as biting as ever when skewering narcissistic middle-class mums. But it could make its white characters squirm a bit more.
Chitra Ramaswamy, The Guardian, 24th May 2021Alexa owners driven mad by Motherland episode
Alexa owners are being driven mad by a Motherland episode which keeps triggering their devices to order 12 bottles of wine, a taxi and play dance tunes.
Joe Kasper, The Sun, 19th May 2021Aidan Smith's TV week: The Pursuit of Love, Motherland
By rights I should hate it. A big house, daft hats, frivolous flibbertigibbets. Two of the stars having an off-set fling which the cynical - me - suspected might have been a stunt to whip up pre-publicity. And being urged to watch, as if under orders from Matt Hancock, because a dollop of escapism is Just What The Country Needs Right Now. But I love The Pursuit Of Love.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 16th May 2021The week in TV: The Pursuit of Love; Motherland
Uncle Matthew and co ride again in Emily Mortimer's gleeful Nancy Mitford adaptation.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 16th May 2021Anna Maxwell Martin: the devil or everymum
The actress, now playing for laughs in Motherland, is a face that fits many roles.
Stephen Armstrong, The Times, 16th May 2021Review: The Pursuit Of Love, Motherland
Lily James and co are awful, just how they're meant to be, writes Hugo Rifkind.
Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 13th May 2021