Julia is a relatable, slightly neurotic working mom, whose annoying mother has suddenly quit looking after her kids. She'll have to face motherhood all by herself, and learn to deal with a number of hilarious challenges, such as pretensious full time moms or ridiculous school events. This show is comedy gold. Anna Maxwell Martin's facial expressions and occasional nervous breakdowns are priceless. I honestly lost it at the "Bop It" scene in the pilot, and have kept laughing steadily throughout the entire series. Every character is incredibly funny and well written, and the accents just make it all better (I'm not from the UK, so I'm biased though). Although there is a storyline, each episode tells a different story, so it's even more entertaing and it never gets boring. To sum up, one of the best comedy series I've watched in a while, looking forward to the next season!

If this is even vaguely reminiscent of what London has become then I'm glad that I left in 1993. None of these characters have any spine, balls, common sense or any semblance of real human beings. They're all infinitely slappable and I have no sympathy for any of them since they can't actually stand up for themselves in any way at all. How Linehan got involved in this fiasco is beyond me since he's one of the greatest comic writers of our generation. Maybe his wife henpecked him into attaching his name to it. The laughs are few and far between, and filling the gaps is some sort of what's meant to be observational humour but it falls flat when you're watching supposedly intelligent people do stupid things. My girlfriend forced me to watch it and even she was getting racked off towards the end. This isn't comedy. It's tragedy.

This is one of the funniest series i've seen since Peep show stopped airing. The characters are all hilarious, there is never a time where i'm disappointed when we have to be with a specific character other than the bitching from the over worked moms which comes out as angsty hilarity, your chest tightens with the darkness of the humour and the expectation of the dreadful thing they're going to say; Julia is hard nosed, selfish. Liz is sarky single mom who's had a hard life, and Kevin is a cringing, lovable, pushover, which emphasise the reality of school mom's. all the side characters are equally fleshed out and have there own awful personalities, but you understand where they come from, the sarcy backhanded comments remind you of my own experience as a child.

I don't know why I never heard about this series. It is certainly the funniest pilot I have seen in a long time. Absolutely hilarious and fresh and real unlike clichéd Hollywood motherhood depictions. At least most mothers I know would surely identify. Really disappointing that there is only this one episode --looking forward to more.