History Series / Flowers2016

* ShakyPOVCam: A similar trope is used for Amy's frequent nightmare and psychotic sequences, which also employ washed coloration and overload image ageing to make the horror style more pronounced.

* AuthorAvatar: And in-universe example, Mr Grubbs of Maurice's book is obviously meant to be him, though he doesn't take a kind look on himself. As the book is all narrated, there's rarely a chance for Mr Grubbs to voice any views, which may reflect how Maurice feels.

* OnlySaneMan: Abigail plays this part, ignoring her obsession with Amy. Amy herself does, too, at least compared with everyone else.

* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Showing its genre, the series seems to convey the message that monogamy is boring, what with two open marriages and another swinger in the main cast.

''Flowers'' is a Creator/Channel4 DarkComedy show about the Flowers, an anti-social family living somewhere in rural England and just being weird. They are the overbearing but still somehow wet cloth of a mother Deborah (Creator/OliviaColman), depressed and bored father Maurice (Julian Barratt), adult twins the slightly-satanic Amy (Sophia Di Martino) and mad-inventor Donald (Creator/DanielRigby) who have had to grow up in this mess, still live at home and are seen barely functioning outside as Donald tries to woo neighbour Abigail (Creator/GeorginaCampbell) and Amy barely leaves her room, instead writing creepy songs.

* SuicideAsComedy: The opening sequence involves Maurice trying to hang himself in the garden. He's so heavy that when he kicks the chair away, his body weight snaps the branch he'd tied the noose to, and he falls to the ground. It's shot to be somehow comedic, and there's other scenes later on where someone might found out that are played for laughs, too.

* DawsonCasting: Daniel Rigby and Sophia Di Martino play 25-year-olds, and are both 10 years older than this. At one point, Amy (Di Martino) does joke that Donald (Rigby) "looks 40".

* RetroactiveRecognition: Georgina Campbell as Abigail is more familiar for later playing Amy in ''Series/BlackMirror'' "[[Recap/BlackMirrorHangTheDJ Hang the DJ]]".
* SeparatedAtBirthCasting: Sophia Di Martino and Olivia Colman do share a lot of facial similarities, enough to make the relationship very plausible. Well, if it weren't for the actresses being [[PlayingGertrude too close]] [[DawsonCasting in age]].

* ScatterbrainedSenior: The grandma character is this, speaking very few words, which are usually nonsense. As with the trappings of the trope and genre, she also can accidentally uncover things that her more witty relatives can't.

* ComingOutStory: Averted. Amy very casually has her dad, Maurice, critique her writing and when he comments that love poems/songs can often contain phallic imagery nowadays, hers is very subdued and she counters by saying it's for a girl. He gets no more awkward than he was before. Amy says she doesn't want to tell mum because then it'll be a whole thing.

* KavorkaMan: The Flowers are presented as rather plain in appearance and very strange and emotionally unstable in personality. Yet all of their neighbours seem attracted to one of them (though none to Donald) -- George and Barry to Deborah, Hugo's mum to Maurice, Abigail to Amy. Though it doesn't take long to realise that all the neighbours are varying levels of odd, too.

* VertigoPull: Used in the HospitalGurneyScene to highlight Maurice's madness as it is used for his perspective watching his mother be wheeled into the building.

* KavorkaMan: The Flowers are presented as rather plain in appearance and very strange and emotional unstable in personality. Yet all of their neighbours seem attracted to one of them (though none to Donald) -- George and Barry to Deborah, Hugo's mum to Maurice, Abigail to Amy.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Donald to Abigail.

* BlandNameProduct: The Mr Grubbs book Maurice is writing seems to be a combination of ''Literature/TheGruffalo'' and ''Literature/TheJabberwocky''.

''Flowers'' is a Creator/Channel4 DarkComedy show about the Flowers, an anti-social family living somewhere in rural England and just being weird. They are the overbearing but still somehow wet cloth of a mother Deborah (Creator/OliviaColman), depressed and bored father Maurice (Julian Barratt), adult twins the slightly-satanic Amy (Sophia Di Martino) and mad-inventor Donald (Daniel Rigby) who have had to grow up in this mess, still live at home and are seen barely functioning outside as Donald tries to woo neighbour Abigail (Creator/GeorginaCampbell) and Amy barely leaves her room, instead writing creepy songs.

''Flowers'' is a Creator/Channel4 DarkComedy show about the Flowers, an anti-social family living somewhere in rural England and just being weird. They are the overbearing but still somehow wet cloth of a mother Deborah (Creator/OliviaColman), depressed and bored father Maurice (Julian Barratt), adult twins the slightly-satanic Amy (Sophia [=DiMartino=]) and mad-inventor Donald (Daniel Rigby) who have had to grow up in this mess, still live at home and are seen barely functioning outside as Donald tries to woo neighbour Abigail (Creator/GeorginaCampbell) and Amy barely leaves her room, instead writing creepy songs.

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''Flowers'' is a Creator/Channel4 BlackComedy show about the Flowers, an anti-social family living somewhere in rural England and just being weird. They are the overbearing but still somehow wet cloth of a mother Deborah (Creator/OliviaColman), depressed and bored father Maurice (Creator/JulianBarratt), adult twins the slightly-satanic Amy (Creator/SophiaDiMartino) and mad-inventor Donald (Creator/DanielRigby) who have had to grow up in this mess, still live at home and are seen barely functioning outside as Donald tries to woo neighbour Abigail (Creator/GeorginaCampbell) and Amy barely leaves her room, instead writing creepy songs.