As Motherland’s second series begins, co-writers tell of the work ethic at heart of writer’s successThere is, Sharon Horgan has said, “a massive overlap” between her life and the TV comedies she has made. “I had nothing, and now I have something, and I managed to cobble together a family and a relationship along the way,” she said in an interview in 2016, “but at the heart of it I’m still a mess, and there’s still just a mess at the heart of all my work.”A new series of the hit BBC comedy drama Motherland starts on Monday, co-written by Horgan. If there has been a fair amount of Horgan in the main character of hassled, tetchy mother Julia, – played by Anna Maxwell Martin – then there also must be, at least from the outside, some of her in the new character Meg. Continue reading…
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