Flowers (TV series)
| Flowers | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Black comedy |
| Created by | Will Sharpe |
| Directed by | Will Sharpe |
| Starring |
Julian Barratt Olivia Colman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Diederick Santer |
| Producer(s) | Naomi De Pear |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Kudos Seeso |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Channel 4 (United Kingdom) Seeso (United States) |
| Original release | 25 April 2016 |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Flowers is a British black comedy TV series written by Will Sharpe and starring Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt. It was commissioned by the British broadcaster Channel 4, in association with the American TV streaming service Seeso. The series premiered with two episodes on 25 April 2016, and was broadcast daily during the week, ending on 29 April. In America, all 6 episodes were released online on 5 May 2016.
The series follows the Flowers family, consisting of depressed father and children's author Maurice (Barratt); music teacher wife Deborah (Colman), their 25-year-old twin children: inventor son Donald (Daniel Rigby) and lesbian musician daughter Amy (Sophia Di Martino); Maurice's senile mother Hattie (Leila Hoffman); and Maurice's Japanese illustrator Shun (Sharpe).
Filming on location of series 2 was evident in Windsor Great Park on 2nd September 2017
The complete series 1 was released on DVD in June 2016 by Dazzler Media.
Initial reviews for the series were positive. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes rated it 100% "fresh" based on 6 reviews.The Guardian praised the series and called it "a gloriously dark sitcom about depression and rage".New York Times also reviewed it positively saying, "Flowers isn’t really about any particular story. It’s a portrait — a weird, Edward Gorey-like portrait of a family with loves, suspicions and insecurities, perhaps not all that different from yours, after all."
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