A modern take on mother’s ruin

Emmanuel Kehoe on the week's television

Philippa Dunne, Diane Morgan, Anna Maxwell-Martin, Paul Ready and Lucy Punch in Motherland (BBC Two)

Reviewed This Week

Motherland: BBC Two

Babylon Berlin: Sky Atlantic

Alias Grace: Netflix

Christine and Adrian’s Friendship Test: BBC One

Motherland(BBC Two) hit the screens in September of last year with a pilot that captured the freneticism and angst of modern family life. Happily, it was also hilariously funny.

Created and written by Sharon Horgan, Graham and Helen Linehan and Holly Walsh, it’s unsurprisingly back as a full series with the hapless Julia ...