Will Sharpe
- Actor, director, producer and writer
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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 2018Flowers: 'comedy with mental illness' redefining sitcom
Starring Julian Barratt and adored by Paul Thomas Anderson, Flowers is grotesque, surreal - and part of a new wave of TV exploring mental health.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 8th 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 2018BBC Two is Defending The Guilty in new courtroom comedy
Will Sharpe and Katherine Parkinson are the stars of a new comedy about the legal profession, ordered by BBC Two.
British Comedy Guide, 30th April 2018Will Sharpe on bringing Japanese comedy to the stage
His Channel 4 comedy-drama Flowers returns this summer - but first, he's staging One Green Bottle, a new version a play by legendary Japanese writer Hideki Noda.
Jo Caird, The Independent, 24th April 2018Comedians front E4 video encouraging people to vote
Roisin Conaty, Natasia Demetriou, Tom Rosenthal, Joel Dommett and Richard Ayoade star in a video from E4 that aims to encourage young people to vote.
British Comedy Guide, 30th May 2017Depressed girl killed herself after watching Flowers
A sixth former at a top private boarding school was found hanging just hours after being distressed by a Channel 4 series which featured a suicide attempt, an inquest has heard. Rebecca Haley, 18, was said left 'upset and emotional' after watching the series called Flowers which examined issues around depression.
Richard Spillett, Daily Mail, 25th October 2016Flowers to return to Channel 4 for Series 2
Channel 4 has ordered a second series of Flowers, the dark comedy drama starring Julian Barratt and Olivia Colman.
British Comedy Guide, 19th September 2016