Best friends Maggie and Eddie played by Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls) and Lydia West (It’s A Sin, Inside Man) have lived in each other’s pockets for ten years, through thick, thin, and multiple challenging eyebrow trends. But with the rest of their lives looming, careers hanging in the balance, and Maggie’s bipolar disorder making an unwelcome return to form, Eddie begins to question whether this friendship is really in their best interests. It’s a pivotal point in both their lives, bringing to the surface those all-important questions – could sleeping with your former History teacher be the key to happiness? Is a basement Rat Hotel a functional alternative to pest control? With their twenties behind them, Maggie and Eddie’s relationship faces the future – can it survive?
“Derry Girls star’s new comedy is a brilliantly sharp, eye-opening watch
It’s dark comedy at its best.
…With deft strokes, Whitehill manages to examine the intricacies of mental health through female friendships while also inverting the perspective so that the audience is exploring the complexity of female friendships through mental health…ability to be utterly laugh-out-loud funny, only it’s a dark and light and grey kind of comedy that resonates throughout the body. It’s a show that’s sad, frustrating, painful, awkward and plain bonkers funny…relatable watch that’s witty and surprising enough to bring out that embarrassing snort-laugh we all have deep inside.”
“Big Mood on Channel 4 review: witty, gritty and honest – everything Nicola Coughlan touches turns to gold
For those wondering where all the good millennial TV shows have gone, Big Mood is it
…Not since Fleabag have I seen comedic writing this good, this current…Camilla Whitehill’s script…managing to capture the reality of being a young millennial without ever committing the cardinal sin of “millennial cringe”. The jokes come thick and fast…there are more genuinely laugh-out-loud one-liners in the first 20 minutes than in the span of most TV shows…It is also a refreshing take on the ugly and unchic side of mental health problems. There is no glamour here, just failing at work, days whittled away unshowered and undressed, and uncomfortable selfishness…
Witty, gritty, and honest – if you’ve been wondering where all the good millennial TV shows have gone, Big Mood is it.”
“Big Mood is a funny antidote to TV’s millennial erasure
…Big Mood…it’s funny – no small feat…actually laugh-out-loud funny. Like the peak millennial comedies of yesteryear, the script is smart and often on point…“Do you know what day it is?!” she asks. Eddie hesitates, cogs turning. “The anniversary of the first time your dad called you fat?” “No, that’s November.”…a fairly realistic portrayal of what it’s like to be in your early 30s and living in the city right now…Big Mood isn’t all laughs, though. The show is about serious mental illness, the kind we don’t usually see on screen (depression, sure, but mania? Not so much)…By the final episode, laughs are few and far between…takes on a bleaker hue. Amid the dark sense of humour that fizzles throughout is a real darkness that sits right beneath it…in an era in which TV is saturated with dated ideals of what 30-somethings look and act like, the Channel 4 comedy is more than an antidote; it’s a big mood.”