{"id":473988,"date":"2026-05-08T01:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/473988\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:30:16","slug":"amandaland-review-spin-off-amusing-in-parts-but-its-not-a-patch-on-motherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/473988\/","title":{"rendered":"Amandaland review: Spin-off amusing in parts, but it\u2019s not a patch on Motherland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Television<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joanna Lumley, Lucy Punch, Samuel Anderson and Philppa Dunne in Amandaland. Photo: BBC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ecc99036-b48f-4219-ae52-a624037b855a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Joanna Lumley, Lucy Punch, Samuel Anderson and Philppa Dunne in Amandaland. Photo: BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Motherland is one of the best sitcoms that has ever been made. Amandaland (BBC One, Wednesday, 9pm)&#8230; isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The trick is not to compare the two, but to think of them as two entirely separate entities. That\u2019s difficult, though, because the only reason to watch Amandaland at all is probably because it\u2019s a spin-off from Motherland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Television Joanna Lumley, Lucy Punch, Samuel Anderson and Philppa Dunne in Amandaland. Photo: BBC Motherland is one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[33200,18,117,19,17,23942],"class_list":{"0":"post-473988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eilis-ohanlon","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116536372555799601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}