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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Am I Being Unreasonable? review – Daisy May Cooper is absurdly brilliant

Secret struggle … Daisy May Cooper as Nic in Am I Being Unreasonable?
Secret struggle … Daisy May Cooper as Nic in Am I Being Unreasonable? Photograph: Alistair Heap/Boffola Pictures

At first, it seems that Daisy May Cooper hasn’t strayed far from the role that made her famous – the fabulously peevish Kerry Mucklowe in This Country, the bittersweet comedy she co-wrote and starred in with her brother Charlie.

Her new venture is comedy-thriller Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One), co-written with her real-life best friend Selin Hizli (who also stars), in which she plays secretly grieving mother Nic whom we first meet lying on the sofa with her son Ollie (Lenny Rush), eating cereal and watching crap telly until he insists on being taken to school on time.

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