I always felt that you could get a sense of the Western mother by how she’s depicted on television. From the idealized perfection of Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch” in the 1970s to the more authentic imperfection of Roseanne Conner on “Roseanne” in the 1990s, American sitcoms always seemed to be where “mom” lived. And in the U.K., mums seemed more complicated, on soap operas like “EastEnders” and “Coronation Street.”
