There’s always someone smug who booked Santa in February and has handmade personalised crackers. With (jingle)
bells on. In an ode to harassed parents everywhere, the Motherland Christmas Special on BBC2 on Wednesday was a heavenly breath of slightly boozy air. The passive-aggressive star twinkling atop my Christmas telly tree.
It began with an excruciating kids nativity and ended with mums crawling into bed on Christmas Eve, utterly done in.
This couldn’t be more relatable. In the brilliantly observed school gate comedy, Lucy Punch plays perfect mum Amanda. We all know one. Outwardly glossy, internally panicking.
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