History Series / Flowers2016

* IntersceneDiegetic: In one episode, Deborah is listening to a tape of Amy's music, with the song continuing into the next scene of Amy and friends recording music in the church.

* MadwomanInTheAttic: Invoked but not ultimately done, as the show references it with Amy, who is mad, living in the attic -- but she's not looked up, possibly the most reasonable in the family, and obviously she lives there out of choice and possibly practicality.

* {{Pornstache}}: Donald grows one before series 2, which both Matilda and Amy {{lampshade}}.

* UnusualEuphemism: Amy and Abigail substituting the word 'lesbian' for saying "feminist" with inflection and curious eyebrow.

* VisualPun: Shun needing to urinate in the woods and saying "oopsy daisy" before beginning to piss on some daisies. Then saying "pissing on the flowers" and laughing.

''Flowers'' is a Creator/Channel4 DarkComedy {{Drama}} show about the Flowers, an anti-social family living somewhere in rural England called Heathen's Wood 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 (and more successfully wooing Abigail).

* SurpriseIncest: [spoiler:Inverted. We're led to believe George and Abigail are father and daughter, which makes the fact that they have sex in the sauna a straight example. However, they're actually in a bizarre, possessive relationship.]]

* NWordPrivileges: Brought up [[spoiler:in a scene where a drunk Shun gets furious at how much English people [[InterchangeableAsianCultures call him "chink"]]. He hates the Chinese and think they're dirty. When he starts acting out some inventive stereotypes and slurs, Maurice and Carol & Carroll discuss whether he can say those things because he's Asian, but not Chinese. The more observant of the audience will detect another layer of humor as Shun iswrestled to the ground by staff at the restaurant: ''they're in a Chinese restaurant''.]]

* BritishHumour: Possibly the most textbook of moments has to be the stoic discussion of the manga porn superheroes, especially by Deborah. They're perfectly fine with it, but unfamiliar, and don't find it funny but are trying to fully embrace it. This makes it very funny for viewers.
-->'''Shun:''' They don't like me here.
-->'''Shun's grandmother:''' That's probably just British sarcasm.
-->'''Shun's grandfather:''' A typical British laugh.
* ButchLesbian: Amy's girlfriend in series 2.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Amy and Abigail don't seem to get their happy ending, with Abigail being PutOnABus and so supposedly will stay under the thumb of George forever, then Amy gets hit by lightning when trying to follow a [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption destined to fail]] RiteOfPassage [[BoltOfDivineRetribution in order to be with her forbidden love]] (don't worry, [[PreserveYourGays she lives]]).

* EmotionControl: George exerts this over Abigail, manipulating her into being largely emotionally reliant on him and sometimes even metaphysically reliant on him, too.

* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Showing its genre, the series seems to convey the message that monogamy is boring, what with two open marriages and another swinger couple in the main cast. In fact, the only adult characters who don't engage in it are Amy and Donald, and they're not shown having opportunity.

* GiganticGulp: In the second episode, Maurice gets a comically large cup of coffee from the hospital cafe/machine, which Deborah refers to as a "reservoir of coffee".

* NWordPrivileges: Brought up in a scene where a drunk Shun gets very angry at how much English people [[InterchangeableAsianCultures call him "chink"]], because he hates the Chinese and think they're dirty. When he starts acting out some inventive stereotypes and slurs, Maurice and Carol & Carroll discuss whether he can say those things because he's Asian, but not Chinese. The more observant of the audience will get another level of funny from Shun being wrestled to the ground by staff at the restaurant -- he wasn't just causing a scene, ''they're in a Chinese restaurant'', given away by the glass lazy Susan style tables seen in the background a few scenes earlier, and so the Chinese staff are dragging him away for being racist.

* SurpriseIncest: Inverted. [[spoiler:We're led to believe George and Abigail are father and daughter, which makes the fact that they have sex in the sauna a straight example. However, they're actually in a bizarre, possessive relationship.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Carol & Carroll, the book publishers, are seemingly the exact opposite of each other, but function as a unit akin to Mr Black & Mr White.
* TimeSkip: There's one between series 1 and 2, and another one between S2 E1 and S2 E2, which is particularly notable compared with the series 1 episodes being continuous and in some places overlapping.

* BiTheWay: Abigail. At first it seems like it might be an issue, and this is why George is moving them away, but it's later revealed that [[spoiler:George and Abigail aren't father and daughter, they're in some sort of relationship]].

''Flowers'' is a Creator/Channel4 DarkComedy show about the Flowers, an anti-social family living somewhere in rural England called Heathen's Wood 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 (and more successfully wooing Abigail).

The second series is after an unspecified TimeSkip, by which point both Maurice and Amy have [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange cut their unruly hair]], Donald has let his grow, Maurice is on medication and Amy's in a successful band. These are the most massive changes to the status quo, but Donald has taken on a day job, too. It also features Donald's on-off LoveInterest (Fat) Matilda, and a bunch of Amy's multicultural bandmates.

* 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, Barbara to Maurice, Abigail to Amy. Though it doesn't take long to realise that all the neighbours are varying levels of odd, too.

The second series is after an unspecified TimeSkip, by which point both Maurice and Amy have [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange cut their unruly hair]], Donald has let his grow, Maurice is on medication and Amy's in a successful band. These are the most massive changes to the status quo, but Donald has taken on a day job, too.

The first series premiered in spring 2016, the second in summer 2018, with [[BritishBrevity six episodes each]].

* ActingForTwo: Sophia Di Martino plays both Amy and her IdenticalAncestor Bertha.

* AlliterativeName: Felix Flower, Maurice's father. From series 2, Bertha Baumgartner.

''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 (and more successfully wooing Abigail).

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Amy and Abigail don't seem to get their happy ending, with Abigail being PutOnABus and so supposedly will stay under the thumb of George forever, with Amy being hit by lightning when trying to follow a [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption destined to fail]] RiteOfPassage [[BoltOfDivineRetribution in order to be with her forbidden love]] (don't worry, [[PreserveYourGays she lives]]).

* DoesNotGetTheGirl: Amy and Abigail don't seem to get their happy ending, with Abigail being PutOnABus and so supposedly will stay under the thumb of George forever, with Amy being hit by lightning when trying to follow a DestinedToFail RiteOfPassage [[BoltOfDivineRetribution in order to be with her forbidden love]] (don't worry, [[PreserveYourGays she lives]]).

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* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Though Donald is outright awful to his sister, he is shown at one point to have tried inventing things as a child to make her happier, because he saw she was always sad when he was always happy and wanted to share it. He does go to check on her when Maurice asks him to, as well.