Big Mood review: Nicola Coughlan is fantastic but the same can’t be said for the rest of this unfunny, jarring show

Big Mood review: Nicola Coughlan is fantastic but the same can’t be said for the rest of this unfunny, jarring show

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Big Mood review – Nicola Coughlan is a force of nature

The Derry Girls actor is funny to her bones in this sitcom about mental health and long-term friendship. It’s full of lovely touches, if not enough nuanceIn the opening episode of Big Mood, struggling playwright Maggie (Derry Girls’ and Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan) is on a mission. And on a scooter. But that was an expensive mistake, so she gives it away to a passerby. She needs her best friend Eddie (It’s a Sin’s Lydia West) to take the day of…

In Big Mood, Nicola Coughlan has enormous fun as an anxious do-badder – review

‘Derry Girls’ star gives a big, fidgety performance as a playwright juggling her writing ambitions with her mental illness