Motherhood is an experience so complex and full of emotions, that we can rarely see it embodied in series or movies as it really is. In most of the fictional stories that exist, they usually present it in an idealized way and far from the reality of a mother's day-to-day life.
But this does not happen in "The Letdown", the fun Australian maternity series, which is full of real, raw and honest moments with which many mothers will surely identify.
A while ago I told you about "Workin 'Moms", the Canadian series that Netflix had added to its catalog and that showed a more realistic face of motherhood, but also with some exaggerated situations and with a lot of sense of humor (and of which by the way the second season is already available on that platform).
In Babies and more 'Working mothers', the Canadian series that comes to Netflix to show a real motherhood and full of humorAfter publishing the review of this series that mothers really liked for not idealizing motherhood, some readers recommended me to check out "The Letdown" another recent series of realistic maternity, but of Australian origin and just released its second season.
For reasons of life I postponed it a bit (you know, I'm a mom and I don't have much free time to watch series), but Now that I've seen it, I can understand why they recommended it to me so much and why many even told me that it is even more realistic than "Workin 'Moms".
Unlike the first, "The Letdown" seems stronger, more raw and above all, more real. If "Workin 'Moms" made us laugh for making us feel identified, with this Australian series We will be relieved to know that everything we are living after the arrival of the baby is completely normal.
To start, we have the protagonist of the series, a first-time mother named Audrey who is exhausted because of those long sleepless nights of the first months after the baby arrived. In fact, this is how the series begins: with her, exhausted and lost, while she walks her baby in the car to sleep, a trick that many parents resort to in the first year.
But In addition to being deprived of rest, Audrey lives many other experiences that mothers go throughLike feeling lost because of motherhood, realizing that her life has changed completely and the dynamics with her friends without children will not be the same, feeling guilty for wishing a time alone or resting for her and many other situations and dilemmas. They live when you're a first-time mom and they make you question if you're doing things right.
In Babies and more Mom: you are not doing it wrong, simply motherhood can sometimes be very hardFortunately, Audrey joins a support group for recent moms, showing us the importance of having a tribe. Although the members of that group could not be more different from each other, we can realize how it helps a lot to have someone living the same as you at that time.
"The Letdown" I liked it a lot, but at the same time it made me think about the complexity of motherhood. On the one hand I liked that it is very real, so I definitely recommend that all mothers see it, especially those who recently had a baby.
But on the other hand, I also feel that it is a bit hard and can give a message of disappointment. In fact, "letdown" means "low" or "disappointment" (although this is also how it is said in English when the milk goes down). It is true that Motherhood is not easy and it is not rosy, but sometimes it seems that the series is very focused to highlight only the negative changes when having children, although there are some beautiful and emotional scenes too.
However, as I have said on other occasions, fortunately motherhood is not like postpartum and this eventually ends, giving way to another more mature stage of being a mother. We must therefore remember that it is fiction, and only show certain situations, because in real life not everything is tiredness and sacrifice, there are also daily moments of happiness.
For all this, and Although it mostly shows us the most difficult side of motherhood, the series seems bright and very successful. Audrey makes us feel a roller coaster of encouraging and disappointing emotions at the same time, something that perhaps we can only feel who we are mothers and we have been in the place where she is, and the actress knows how to convey in a clear and sometimes comic way the overwhelm, confusion, stress and fatigue of those first months.
Because the series has been released just last year, all those experiences that are lived in the postpartum are far from me. For this reason, and because I was interested to know if recent mothers saw her from another point of view, I asked some of my readers on Instagram what they thought of her and several replied that thanks to that series they could understand that what happened to them in the first year of the baby was normal, and even some said that it worked as a therapy to better cope with maternity changes.
In Espinof'The Letdown ': Netflix is still betting on the most charismatic maternity of television in a brilliant season 2As I said at the beginning, few maternity series or films show the real side of being a mother, and play many topics that are not seen on social networks, where we usually see perfect or idealized maternity. But that doesn't happen with "The Letdown", which from my personal point of view and as a mother, is the most real motherhood we can see on television.
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