Lesley Manville
- Actor
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Mum review - cliched take on the reality of being a mum
Lesley Manville suffuses her character with warmth and melancholy, but there is more to motherhood than 'keep calm and carry on ironing'.
Chitra Ramaswamy, The Guardian, 21st February 2018TV Review, Mum (BBC2)
Lesley Manville returns in family comedy gem.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 21st February 2018Mum, BBC Two, series 2 review
Lesley Manville is a discreet delight.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 21st February 2018Left stony-faced by Cleese? Try bittersweet gem Mum
We all laugh at different things. Opinions were sharply divided, in my home and probably millions of others, over John Cleese's new sitcom Hold The Sunset last Sunday -- blissfully traditional, or wheezingly out-dated, depending on your taste. Mum (BBC2) tackles identical subject matter: the recently widowed woman, not yet ready for her bath chair, whose hopes of new romance with an old friend are constantly obstructed by her selfish son and the rest of her feckless family.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 21st February 2018Lesley Manville brings the cheery pathos in series two of the understated but affecting comedy about a widowed woman and the people who buzz relentlessly around her. It is Cathy's 60th and she's off to the carvery with the family; her tentative love interest Michael (Peter Mullan) has bought a new shirt for the occasion.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 20th February 2018Mum makes the mother of all returns
Poignant is a word that doesn't get used much these days, but it fits Mum (BBC Two) like a glove. In this spare, quiet sitcom, deep emotions aren't so much plumbed as plucked at in a piquant, reserved, achingly sympathetic way.
Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 20th February 2018TV preview: Mum, BBC2
The first series of Mum found saintly Cathy (Lesley Manville) mourning the death of her husband and dealing with her, erm, colourful family. The second series starts with a marginally lighter issue. She is about to turn sixty and also has her Essex family descending on her en masse.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 18th February 2018I talk to: Lesley Manville & Lisa McGrillis
Mum, the new sitcom from Him & Her writer Stefan Golaszewski launched in May 2016 and quickly found a place in the nation's hearts so it's no surprise that it's back for a second series and will be back for a third.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 14th February 2018Lesley Manville interview
Lesley Manville on her thrill at returning for a second series of BBC2's award-winning comedy Mum.
TV Times, 14th February 2018BBC Two orders a third series of Mum
BBC Two has ordered a third series of Mum, the sitcom starring Lesley Manville. The news comes before the second series has even been shown.
British Comedy Guide, 19th October 2017