Helen Linehan

Exhausted mothers Julia and Liz bond over wine and career failures while their children cause chaos in the background.

A frantic mother, Julia, confronts her mother, Marion, who has been hiding behind a sofa to avoid childcare duties. The scene reaches a breaking point when Marion announces she is officially retiring from looking after her grandchildren, leaving Julia in a state of desperate denial and rage.

A starving Julia attempts to secretly eat leftovers off a child's plate during a somber conversation about a stroke, only to be caught and shamed by the passive-aggressive Amanda. The tension escalates until Liz intervenes with a brutally honest and confrontational monologue that shuts down the social posturing of the group.

While preparing a sandwich in her messy kitchen, Liz accidentally cuts her finger off, forcing a panicked Julia to help her call a cab to A&E.

Julia attempts to blame a five-year-old for bullying her daughter to cover her own tracks, but panics when the headmistress tries to call the boy's mother.

A stressed and starving Julia attempts to secretly eat leftover spaghetti from a child's plate while pretending to console a friend about her husband's stroke. The situation escalates into social humiliation when the passive-aggressive alpha-mom Amanda catches her and insists on making her a 'pity omelette' in front of the entire group.