The Flowers are barely holding a marriage together while a house full of misfits keeps interrupting the attempt.
What is Flowers about?
Maurice and Deborah have not divorced, but calling what they have a marriage is generous — the two are stuck in the same house, unable to move forward or fully let go. Around them lives a small chaos: Maurice's eccentric elderly mother and their two grown twin children, neither of whom has settled into adulthood in a way that gives the parents any peace. Flowers builds its comedy out of that pressure cooker, letting each family member's private unhappiness collide with everyone else's without warning. The tone shifts constantly, sliding from farce into something genuinely sad and back again inside a single scene, which is part of what set the series apart from more conventional family sitcoms when it first aired.
About the cast
Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt play Deborah and Maurice, a pairing that leans into discomfort rather than warmth to sell the marriage's exhaustion. Sophia Di Martino and Daniel Rigby play the twins, with creator Will Sharpe also appearing on screen alongside Anna Chancellor in the wider household.
Context & significance
Flowers was written and directed by Will Sharpe, who built the show around a single, stylised family home rather than a conventional multi-location sitcom setup. The visual style leans gothic and theatrical, closer to a dark fable than a standard British comedy, which is part of why the series drew festival and critical attention beyond the usual sitcom audience.
Watching Flowers on Ktime
You can look through the Flowers page on K-Time without logging in at all; a free K-Time account is only needed once you actually press play. The series streams here with a Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, and K-Time's Farsi interface makes it simple for Persian-speaking households to find, queue and keep watching a show like this one.