Following their winning Christmas special — complete with Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley reunion — Amandaland arrives for a second series with an old-school sitcom goodwill behind it. When it was first announced as a spin-off from the much-loved Motherland, it seemed like a stretch to centralise Lucy Punch’s Amanda, the rich Alpha mum bombshell.
However, in following the character post-divorce, still acting like the Queen Bee but in reality now living in South Harlesden — SoHa she calls it — and working in a kitchen shop to make ends meet, it has found a rich seam of comedy in her delusional inability to deal with reality.
