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Episode 3: Mother's Load

Summary

Julia finds that working from home is impossible due to all the tasks she has to do for her family. Meg tells her this is her `Mother's Load" - all the things that no-one else will do, but need to be done to keep the home running. Julia removes herself to the cafe to work, but even there finds it's not that easy to get motivated. A possible solution presents itself when she shares a table with a fellow freelancer, but is Julia taking advantage of him? Meanwhile, much to her surprise, Liz finds herself bored to tears when her youngest starts nursery and she is alone during the day, and Kevin has problems when he takes on responsibility for a school fund-raising project

Review

Ineffectual dad Kevin is pushed to the limit this week. Paul Ready does such a great job of playing a wimpish new man, it’s easy to forget he was equally good playing a sinister thug. (Remember him in a yellow suit in Utopia?).

Kevin gets involved in raising money for new goalposts at the school. As he explains to Liz, “The kids have done their self-portraits and we’re going to print them on tea towels and sell them to ourselves.” If there has been a better summing-up of primary school fundraising, I haven’t heard it.

While he frazzles, hideous Amanda takes on an assistant at her shop (“Don’t put all the biscotti jars out at once…”) – and we see her vulnerable side.

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Released on
2019-10-21
Languages
English
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Credits

Cast

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LeonMichael Abubakar
Nursery WorkerJayne Aguire
PaulOliver Chris
Mrs LambJackie Clune
AnnePhilippa Dunne
RoseLily Frazer
NickKobna Holdbrook-Smith
MegTanya Moodie
JohnnyTerry Mynott
LesleyPamela Nomvete
AmandaLucy Punch
JuliaAnna Maxwell Martin
LizDiane Morgan
KevinPaul Ready

Crew

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WriterSharon Horgan
WriterHelen Linehan
WriterHolly Walsh
Production company
DirectorJuliet May
WriterBarunka O'Shaughnessy
ProducerSam Pinnell
Executive producerClelia Mountford
Executive producerSharon Horgan

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  • Summary

    Julia finds that working from home is impossible due to all the tasks she has to do for her family. Meg tells her this is her `Mother's Load" - all the things that no-one else will do, but need to be done to keep the home running. Julia removes herself to the cafe to work, but even there finds it's not that easy to get motivated. A possible solution presents itself when she shares a table with a fellow freelancer, but is Julia taking advantage of him? Meanwhile, much to her surprise, Liz finds herself bored to tears when her youngest starts nursery and she is alone during the day, and Kevin has problems when he takes on responsibility for a school fund-raising project

    Review

    Ineffectual dad Kevin is pushed to the limit this week. Paul Ready does such a great job of playing a wimpish new man, it’s easy to forget he was equally good playing a sinister thug. (Remember him in a yellow suit in Utopia?).

    Kevin gets involved in raising money for new goalposts at the school. As he explains to Liz, “The kids have done their self-portraits and we’re going to print them on tea towels and sell them to ourselves.” If there has been a better summing-up of primary school fundraising, I haven’t heard it.

    While he frazzles, hideous Amanda takes on an assistant at her shop (“Don’t put all the biscotti jars out at once…”) – and we see her vulnerable side.

    How to watch

    Next showing

    There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show. But it is available via the streaming provider below.

    Streaming

    Details

    Released on
    2019-10-21
    Languages
    English
    Formats
    Colour

    Credits

    Cast

    rolename
    LeonMichael Abubakar
    Nursery WorkerJayne Aguire
    PaulOliver Chris
    Mrs LambJackie Clune
    AnnePhilippa Dunne
    RoseLily Frazer
    NickKobna Holdbrook-Smith
    MegTanya Moodie
    JohnnyTerry Mynott
    LesleyPamela Nomvete
    AmandaLucy Punch
    JuliaAnna Maxwell Martin
    LizDiane Morgan
    KevinPaul Ready

    Crew

    rolename
    WriterSharon Horgan
    WriterHelen Linehan
    WriterHolly Walsh
    Production company
    DirectorJuliet May
    WriterBarunka O'Shaughnessy
    ProducerSam Pinnell
    Executive producerClelia Mountford
    Executive producerSharon Horgan
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