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100% Rotten Tomatoes Country of origin United Kingdom First episode date 25 April 2016 | 8.1/10 IMDb Directed by Will Sharpe No. of series 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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Synopsis
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).
Cast
DVD
The complete series 1 was released on DVD in June 2016 by Dazzler Media.
Reception
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."