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Motherland / Detectorists, review

From fundraising cash to buried treasure, these sitcoms are comedy gold.

Barney Harsent, The Arts Desk, 15th November 2017

Motherland, episode 2 review

Magnifying a very special hell in this messy mom-com.

Rachel Ward, The Telegraph, 14th November 2017

Motherland: one of the best comedies in the last decade

I cannot recommend it highly enough, thanks to its knuckle-chewing awkwardness and leftfield casting.

Ian Hyland, The Mirror, 14th November 2017

After the pilot, it was obvious Motherland would return

Creators Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan mine middle-class motherhood for comedy. These aren't your ordinary middle-class mothers though: they are Mumsnet types that live in large houses in suburban London.

Jonathan Kumar, Telly Binge, 14th November 2017

Why Motherland may be a perfect depiction of parenting

Whereas Catastrophe hilariously captured the minutiae of married life, Motherland does the same with parenting.

Catherine Phillips, Metro, 13th November 2017

You should enjoy Motherland, which features the brilliant Diane Morgan (though not here in her usual faux naive alter ego Philomena Cunk), Anna Maxwell Martin and Lucy Punch in a comedy of middle-class manners and mores - think of it as Mumsnet with a more pronounced sense of self-irony. Punch plays the character and anti-hero Amanda, an intensely annoying alpha mum who is a mash-up of Nigella Lawson, Joanna Lumley and Rachel Johnson (by which I mean the worst bits of all of them). Not the funniest thing on the telly, but pretty good satire, and worth catching.

Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 11th November 2017

Review: Motherland, episode two, BBC2/iPlayer

If you are or you've been a parent you'll love it, but you'll be watching it through your fingers.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th November 2017

Motherland's achievement: its near universal appeal

Both parents and the happily child-free will enjoy this borderline revolutionary BBC Two comedy.

Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 9th November 2017

Motherland: a brutally honest depiction of parenthood

Expect terrifying alpha-mums, chaotic childcare and party politics, says Johanna Thomas-Corr.

Johanna Thomas-Corr, Evening Standard, 9th November 2017

Motherland review: being a parent is a laughing matter

Motherland (BBC2) is a comedy that captures those moments of parental misery and magnifies them.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 8th November 2017

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