This is a programme about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood. It looks at the competitive side and unromantic take on parenting--not the cute, acceptable face of motherhood.
Struggling to adjust to the free-wheeling nature of self-employment, Julia reluctantly agrees to help Amanda launch her new shop, where Kevin wants to sell his children's book.
Julia experiments with a new work set up when working from home becomes too distracting, Kevin feels the pressure of trying to have it all, and Amanda hires an assistant.
Stressed mother Julia's day slowly decends into chaos when she struggles to find childcare arrangements and attempts to join the alpha mums for spag bol.
Barred from the café for creeping everyone out with his fortune telling, Arthur is mistaken for a spiritualist and asked to rid a haunted house of its otherworldly occupants.
Michael is called up for jury service, so Arthur rounds up some of the café regulars to go to court to make Michael's day unforgettable. Some of John the Watch's criminal associates take an interest in Bulent's.
Michael frets about the arrival of Sinem and Bulent's father. Arthur is shaken when doubts are cast upon his acting abilities, but after an accident he takes on the role of his career.
For Michael's birthday, Arthur takes him on a well-meant but disastrously cheap trip to a safari park which ultimately turns into a battle for survival.
In trying to avoid going to an audience participation laden show with Sinem, Michael instead attends Arthur's Soupover (an old man version of a sleepover) and comes to regret it.
Arthur attempts to build bridges with a figure from his past - John Shuttleworth. The two reflect on what might have been if their band hadn't split up. Arthur and Michael do some hustling.
