the audience applauded

Sick Product of a Sick System

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Julia is a relatable, slightly neurotic working mom, whose annoying mother has suddenly quit looking after her kids. She'll have to face motherhood all by herself, and learn to deal with a number of hilarious challenges, such as pretensious full time moms or ridiculous school events. This show is comedy gold. Anna Maxwell Martin's facial expressions and occasional nervous breakdowns are priceless. I honestly lost it at the "Bop It" scene in the pilot, and have kept laughing steadily throughout the entire series. Every character is incredibly funny and well written, and the accents just make it all better (I'm not from the UK, so I'm biased though). Although there is a storyline, each episode tells a different story, so it's even more entertaing and it never gets boring. To sum up, one of the best comedy series I've watched in a while, looking forward to the next season!

If this is even vaguely reminiscent of what London has become then I'm glad that I left in 1993. None of these characters have any spine, balls, common sense or any semblance of real human beings. They're all infinitely slappable and I have no sympathy for any of them since they can't actually stand up for themselves in any way at all. How Linehan got involved in this fiasco is beyond me since he's one of the greatest comic writers of our generation. Maybe his wife henpecked him into attaching his name to it. The laughs are few and far between, and filling the gaps is some sort of what's meant to be observational humour but it falls flat when you're watching supposedly intelligent people do stupid things. My girlfriend forced me to watch it and even she was getting racked off towards the end. This isn't comedy. It's tragedy.

After watching this, I thought I'd search around for reviews, I couldn't believe what I was reading in parts. Do people not want to be entertained anymore? This was the FUNNIEST thing the BBC have put out in YEARS!!!! And about time too. There were times I couldn't breathe for laughing and there hasn't been a comedy that has made me like this for a very long time. Ignore any pretentious reviewers who think they know it all this is FUNNY.It's going to be a tough ask to be able to write a series as good as the pilot but as long as the writers are given enough time this could turn out to be a real winner!!! Please God let this be so, as I'm sick to death of flicking though the channels to see only reality rubbish.

Julia is a woman on the edge, struggling to balance the work/parenting balance. Very much committed to her job in corporate events, she finds little time for being a mum. Julia has a lot on at work, forgetting it's half term, she's lumbered with her kids, and soon after lots of other people's too.Anna Maxwell Martin is one of those actresses you can't help but love, often cast as the normal, nice character, it was fun to see her cast as a neurotic mum for a change, her meltdown was hilarious. Paul Ready was funny, and Lucy Punch added a great deal of her special sarcasm.As a one off comedy I thought it was good, very well acted, it had a few laughs, not too sure I see a great deal of longevity here, but it was a pleasing thirty minutes. Trouble is, when you see the words Graham Linehan you expect the Earth. 6/10