| Creator: | Camilla Whitehill |
| Screenplay: | Camilla Whitehill |
| Director: | Rebecca Asher |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 6 |
| Producer: | Georgie Fallon |
| Network: | Channel 4 |
| Last Aired: | present |
Big Mood is a British dark comedy-drama series first broadcast on Channel 4 on 28 March 2024. The six-part series is written and created by Camilla Whitehill, directed by Rebecca Asher and starring Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West.
Maggie (Coughlan) and Eddie (West), have been best friends for a decade but can the friendship survive in a landscape of increased work, life and mental health pressures?[1]
The production was originally entitled Super Close. It is produced by Georgie Fallon for Dancing Ledge Productions. It was written and created by Camilla Whitehill and directed by Rebecca Asher. Lotte Beasley Mestriner will executive produce with Laurence Bowen and Chris Carey.[2] [3] Channel 4 released a first look image from filming in April 2023.[4] The cast includes comedy actresses Sally Phillips, Amy Gledhill and Freya Parker, with a guest appearance from Joanna Page, playing herself.[5]
Big Mood was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 on 28 March 2024 with all episodes released on its streaming service. In Australia, the series started streaming on Stan from 29 March 2024. In the United States and Canada, Big Mood was launched on Tubi on April 19, 2024.[6]
Big Mood was released on UK Region 2 DVD by Dazzler Media on 15 July 2024.[7]
Big Mood scored a 70 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 7 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews.[8] Season one of Big Mood scored an average of 60% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 5 reviews.[9]
Joel Golby in The Guardian praised the script for avoiding tropes of the genre and praised the performance of an "excellent" Coughlan, who "plays Maggie with big bombastic take-all-the-energy-in-the-room aplomb…and then she turns, playing grey and small and slithering with just as much skill".[10] Emma Loffhagen in The Evening Standard gave the series five stars, writing that it may be Coughlan's best work, and praised the script saying it "never even threatens to slide into the passé" and "not since Fleabag have I seen comedic writing this good, this current."[11] In July 2024, Deadline Hollywood named it one of the best new shows of the year.[12]