The best TV this week: Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan’s Motherland

The best TV this week: Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan’s Motherland

An uproarious tale of school runs, alpha mums and child care starts on BBC2, while 1920s Berlin is t..

An uproarious tale of school runs, alpha mums and child care starts on BBC2, while 1920s Berlin is the setting for Sky Atlantic’s latest drama

Last year’s pilot clearly wasn’t a fluke: this sitcom, created by Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan, is an uproarious treat. Anna Maxwell Martin is Julia, a middle-class mother floundering through a suburban hell of caterpillar cakes, oversized kids’ parties and judgmental supermums. Diane “Philomena Cunk” Morgan offers support.
7 November, 10pm, BBC2

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