durnelliwan This is the worst show on tele, no debate. It's not funny, the acting is terrible, the story lines are predictable, honestly, ever it's painful to watch.

Pandorum_Sufferer I had to write a review after seeing an Australian comment how this rubbish has taken Australia by storm, well that must be your primary school that has been taken by storm because I know no-one that will admit to watching this dribble.I know comedy is subjective so to give you an idea of what I find funny my two favorite comedies are: Community and It's always sunny in Philadelphia.In summary this show is gets its jokes from the 60's, the cast cannot even pull off a joke without cracking and no that is it the show sucks.The purpose of this review other than saving people a miserable experience is to counter "anthanth's" insulting comment about Australian humour.

doubt_it I feel like I'm losing my mind... everyone seems to love this and I can't even begin to comprehend why. Now I love British comedy like the Mighty Boosh, Monty Python, Peter Cooke & Dudley Moore, IT Crowd, Facejacker, Brass Eye... the list goes on. This is just insulting: it's like a laugh track surgically stapled to some painfully unfunny situations. Most of the humor seems to hinge off the fact that the main character is a man dressed up as a woman. Imagine that! The absurdity!! What will they think of next?! I can imagine this would've been a hilarious concept back in 1950 but come on. And I don't have any problem with crude humor... if it's funny and has a purpose rather than just being there to facilitate a knee jerk awkward giggle response because the basic material isn't up to scratch, which is what we have here. Maybe the era of quality British comedy is over and my tastes haven't 'evolved' that far yet. Anyhoo, rant over, I'm going to rethink a few things.

WakenPayne I do like some sitcoms. However some of them fade from me liking them to me... not liking them. They're not bad but they're not for me. Mrs Browns Boys is not one of those sitcoms but it is nowhere near what I thought of it at first.First of all the humour is pretty straight forward and definitely requires a certain taste, which is probably where all the hate comes from and to be honest that's reasonable. But if you don't like the humour then it's pretty obvious that you'll hate the show because it has nothing to stand on other than that.The biggest problem with the show is the drama. Adding drama to sitcoms is nothing new and has been going on since the 70's. However with this show, they provide us with sex jokes and cursing and they want us to take away a message from the 5 minutes of drama spliced in? I'm sorry but humour is what the show is best at. Every bit of that drama however is so forced and contrived that I'm almost screaming "Oh my god!". Because the show is under the impression that at the end of the day we care about the characters. Most of them are not only devoid of personalities but they're badly acted (It's obvious the creator had his family star on the show). The one exception to "badly acted" being Brendan O'Carrol as Mrs Brown.On the subject of the Drama, there has only been one time where it worked. In the pilot Dermott tells Mrs Brown to stay out of his business to which her/his response is "You are my business, I'm your mother." to which the continues "A man in a f##king dress!". Breaking the moment with more comedy is exactly what this show needs.So the humour really is all the show stands on. The drama is contrived and the acting leaves a lot to be desired. You might like the drama, you might not but I really don't like it. Simply because "You're good at creating humour, stick to creating humour" because I really couldn't care about the problems of the characters when they start going dramatic. I guess the messages are okay so I know this is actually trying but it doesn't succeed.