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  • 2016
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Motherland

Summary Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin) struggles with balancing life as a mother without the help of her own mother when she meets Type A mom, Amanda (Lucy Punch); single mom, Liz (Diane Morgan); and stay-at-home-dad, Kevin (Paul Ready Utopia) in this British comedy from Sharon Horgan, Graham Linehan, Helen Linehan, and Holly Walsh.

Created By: Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh, Graham Linehan, Helen Serafinowicz

  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Sundance Now
  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Sundance Now

Motherland

Season 1 Premiere: Sep 6, 2016
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary Julia (Anna Maxwell Martin) struggles with balancing life as a mother without the help of her own mother when she meets Type A mom, Amanda (Lucy Punch); single mom, Liz (Diane Morgan); and stay-at-home-dad, Kevin (Paul Ready Utopia) in this British comedy from Sharon Horgan, Graham Linehan, Helen Linehan, and Holly Walsh.

Created By: Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh, Graham Linehan, Helen Serafinowicz

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
70
67% Positive
8 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
70
67% Positive
8 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
8% Negative
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100
Dec 2, 2021
Motherland’s return has to be one of its best series yet, stuffed with joke after joke, character development and outstanding performances from its seasoned cast. A hugely entertaining watch that I’ll be definitely be bingeing a second time.
By Lauren Morris FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 22, 2021
The show remains very funny, which is the most important thing.
By Benji Wilson FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 22, 2021
Motherland is at its best when it is skewering what it knows: the snobbery, hypocrisy and narcissism of a specific strain of white, middle-class London, plus the hellscape of the school gate. And when it is at its best, it is glorious.
By Chitra Ramaswamy FULL REVIEW
80
May 10, 2018
This is rich terrain that has been insufficiently explored by a comic mind as fearlessly audacious as Horgan’s. Motherland plants a flag there in its very first scene and commences building a legacy. This is an impressive series, and lots of fun, if you don’t mind revisiting or envisioning everyday, low-level trauma.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
67
May 9, 2018
Well-intentioned and with strong ideas worth supporting--seriously, people, help out your spouses--the Sundance Now comedy (that originally aired overseas on BBC Two) can’t balance the chaos it creates with the chaos it instills in viewers. Cringe comedy can provide an outlet to pent-up frustrations, but Motherland mainly builds more of them.
By Ben Travers FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 22, 2021
There is a more interesting, angrier, sadder programme half-visible beneath the surface of Motherland, about the sacrifices women are forced to make, hour by hour, in a world where they might not be able to have it all but are expected to anyway.
By Ed Cumming FULL REVIEW
30
May 9, 2018
Motherland has too many parenting cliches to overcome, despite some funny parts. Nearly all of it is too forced, too set up, too predictable. Parents or not, your time is better spent on Catastrophe.
By Tim Goodman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Boom Cymru
  • Delightful Industries
  • Merman
Initial Release Date: Sep 6, 2016
Number of seasons: 4 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards

Royal Television Society, UK
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
• 4 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

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