{"id":113111,"date":"2019-10-04T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/04\/sharon-horgans-unstoppable-rise-as-master-of-honest-comedy\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:22:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:22:56","slug":"sharon-horgans-unstoppable-rise-as-master-of-honest-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=113111","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Horgan&#039;s unstoppable rise as master of honest comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Motherland\u2019s second series begins, co-writers tell of the work ethic at heart of writer\u2019s successThere is, Sharon Horgan has said, \u201ca massive overlap\u201d between her life and the TV comedies she has made. \u201cI had nothing, and now I have something, and I managed to cobble together a family and a relationship along the way,\u201d she said in an interview in 2016, \u201cbut at the heart of it I\u2019m still a mess, and there\u2019s still just a mess at the heart of all my work.\u201dA 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, \u2013 played by Anna Maxwell Martin \u2013 then there also must be, at least from the outside, some of her in the new character Meg. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2019\/oct\/04\/sharon-horgan-motherland-unstoppable-rise-as-the-master-of-honest-comedy\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Horgan&#039;s unstoppable rise as master of honest comedy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Motherland\u2019s second series begins, co-writers tell of the work ethic at heart of writer\u2019s successThere is, Sharon Horgan has said, \u201ca massive overlap\u201d between her life and the TV comedies she has made. \u201cI had nothing, and now I have something, and I managed to cobble together a family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}