I've never understood how Carla Lane became so popular for I've never found any of her work remotely funny and Butterflies is right up there. I just don't get it. Poor Geoffrey Palmer having to inhabit a one dimensional character episode after episode. I fact, they're all one dimensional. Rea can't cook....over and over again the joke is repeated. She moans about having to look after the house... with a stereotypical cleaner. The sons are just painful; a couple of "cool" entitled smart arses who every now and then notice their mother and insult their father. But people loved it! Why? Not the worse tedious middle class sitcom...that must go to No Place Like Home...but surely not comedy.
Review of Butterflies
