Recensione dei ragazzi della signora Brown: è sicuramente il momento per questa serie triste e poco divertente che svanirà dai nostri schermi
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2025/08/01/mrs-browns-boys-review-its-surely-time-for-this-dreary-and-unfunny-series-to-fade-from-our-screens/
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It’s an old clickbait tactic to send a critic to review a piece in a genre they hate.
I can’t stand the show, but I’ve more respect for O’Carroll as an artist than I do for some elitist wanker critic.
Power can fuck off and so can the IT.
It’s for old people, they find it funny. Leave them be.
To be fair, it’s not like there’s much alternative. TV comedy has died a death.
I don’t get the knee jerk hatred for the show honestly.
It’s like some people just need to pile onto something for the sake of it. If you don’t like Mrs Browns Boys then don’t watch it. Plenty of people in the UK and (to a lesser extent) in Ireland do enjoy it. It wouldn’t be getting production money otherwise.
It’s terrible and always has been but its not for me and it doesnt bother me. Let those who enjoy it enjoy it.
Thankfully we now have options, spare a thought for those of us who remember the time of one channel
Oh fuck
Ah the sheer shit show of a show.
All gay men are hysterical and camp
All ” her ” sons are thick thievery tin heads
Her ” daughter ” educated ” and at the very least striking can’t get a man
Her daughter in laws ” bitches” and not good enough
And Mrs Browne a relic from the 90s .
Rehashed recycled ” jokes ” lousy writing and borderline poverty puns .
And that was just season 1.
The man’s ego will never falter
When the W Blows
The fools here are the people paying for it, not the ones getting paid for it.
Its not for me me, I don’t watch tv anyway but it made a very close family friend of mine who had terminal cancer laugh in hysterics and gave her something to look forward to when it was on so for that I really can’t be bad to the show
It’s well past its sell by date. I’m not bothered to be honest, just make sure I have the remote handy in case it pops up onscreen unexpectedly.
It was funny when it started but it’s got old, in my opinion, but they wouldn’t keep making it if it wasn’t being watched so obviously enough still like it, let them enjoy it.
The Irish Times is genuinely losing credibility lately with these sneaky click bait tactics.
I have an actual screenshot of a headline from a Google snippet where they reduced Daniel O’Connell to nothing more than a “philanderer”.
They seriously need to cop the fuck on.
Not at all. People used to say the same about Fair City and it’s viewership has never been higher.
Jesus lads, here’s us in England thinking it was a documentary on life in Ireland.
Do I think it’s shite? Yes.
Is it made for me? No.
Does it have an audience? Yes.
So I’ve come up with an innovative solution; don’t watch it! Allow those who enjoy it to enjoy it, and I’ll stick to the telly I like.
Ed Power also thought Derry Girls was crap. Mrs Brown’s Boys is for the silent majority. Everyone I know hates it. Everyone I don’t know enjoys it.
Or … or … just don’t watch it. And then don’t worry about that which you don’t value on TV and subsequently you choose to not watch.
Even if it goes it will live on in repeats for years & be brought back for Christmas specials
Don’t watch TV but the one or two times I’ve seen this over the years it just seems like total shite.
It’s panto humour, crude and childish but enough people watch and find it humourous it for the BBC to continually renew it. The great thing is I have a remote control and the entirety of global media at my fingertips so while I don’t care for it I just change the channel. Is their telly locked to BBC1 or something?
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There’s me agreeing with the Irish Times.
Saturday ruined.
Beloved of grandmothers, but then again so is Daniel O’Donnell.
Still Game from BBC Alba is how this humour should be done.
Paddywhackery at best, racist at worst.
Colin Farrel is really good in it though.
Mrs Brown’s Boys is objectively terrible television in terms of writing, production, performances and its effect and legacy on television as a medium will disappear within a year of the last episode airing. It won’t be fondly remembered because half its original audience has already died of old age.
I accept it brings some people joy and that there’s a place for something like it on TV but I very much object to it receiving prestigious awards at the expense of genuinely well-written sitcoms over the years, decided upon by middle-class British entertainment types who feel guilty about being seen as snobbish about a “working class” show (written by a man who lives in a mansion in Florida who shot the show in Scotland and only employs his own, very clearly untrained and still, somehow, inexperienced extended family instead of actual actors) and threw BAFTAs at him for years.
The true test of a good sitcom – of any good show tbh – is whether it’s widely remembered and loved years after it finished. Friends has this, Father Ted has it, fucking Heartbeat has it too. People *adore* very popular sitcoms that were well-written because they stand the test of time.
Mrs Brown’s Boys, with its thousands of pages of dialogue and plot ideas lifted directly from stupid email forwards your Dad would’ve sent around the office in 2001, is not well-written and will disappear into the ether in no time at all.
Its cast will go back to the big houses they bought from the money it brought them and maybe one or two will pivot to Instagram or something (Fiona O’Carroll might manage a career in musical theatre in Ireland) but they’ll never trouble the entertainment world again.
Thankfully there’s an off button
A man dresses like a woman.
Throws in innuendo and gay campness.
Thinks swearing is edgy and funny.
Boring and already done… in the 70’s
It’s far more popular with the British audience than it is in Ireland … I wonder why that is 🤔
Been absolute shit since day one
Lads.
Can we not just let people enjoy the fuckin thing.
Everyone’s a critic.
Has this bollox anything else to write about?
Brendan O Carroll should be celebrated in this country. One of our great talents.
Funny man.