Mrs Brown’s Boys review: It’s surely time for this dreary and unfunny series to fade from our screens

by Banania2020

36 comments

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. It’s terrible and always has been but its not for me and it doesnt bother me. Let those who enjoy it enjoy it.

  5. Thankfully we now have options, spare a thought for those of us who remember the time of one channel

  7. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Even if it goes it will live on in repeats for years & be brought back for Christmas specials

  15. Don’t watch TV but the one or two times I’ve seen this over the years it just seems like total shite.

  18. 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.

  20. 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

    The “show” is pantomime at best.

  21. It’s far more popular with the British audience than it is in Ireland … I wonder why that is 🤔

  23. Its god awful show. He should have been fired after the racist stuff

  25. It has an audience, not mine but sure just let them have it. You don’t like it don’t watch it, simple.

  26. It’s about for 10/15 years now, so it has staying power.

    Is it dated? absolutely – always was. It’s straight out of the ’70s. I liked it in the first few years. It was a callback to a style of comedy from a different era. It has an audience and I believe it always will.

    On a broader note, O’Carroll is great.

  28. Saucy seaside postcard type of humour, like it or not its got a market.

  29. Never watched it, but I’m sure it’s awful. However, I’ve lived this long without it ever bothering me so, who cares. Although it should make space for new shows, by rights.

  30. I’ve never watched one episode I’ve just seen the ads for it and that was enough it’s no father ted

  31. It’s like Antiques Roadshow, I can’t stand it, so I watch a other stuff.

  32. Its not targeted at young people. Its for people in their 60s plus and that age group loves it.

  34. Its stupid, crass and low brow but i always laugh watching it. Reminds me of my deceased mother, was her favourite show. Not everything has to be cultured and intelligent. Better than Killnaskully, Pat Shortt has been atealing a wage for years.

  35. Now that the Irish times is against Mrs Browns Boys I’m warming to it. 

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