Love the show and can't wait to see season 2.
I gotta ask though, what's with the step-mom? I can't figure out if she is mental or has some variety of dementia.
"My step mother is Moldovan, so we have a lot of native sausage in the house in London. It's really something...full of flavor. None of which are pleasant."
shareThis character had me guessing, too. But if you get a chance to binge-watch all 8 episodes of S1, it all pays off in the end. Fantastic! Not to spoil it, but this Moldavan second wife is from another culture, trying her best to find her place, is lucky to find love and be loved in return, and is one of many examples in this show where two unlikely people meet and love. Very nice!
shareShe's allegedly "Moldovan", though she seems to be some kind of two-dimensional satire on a Slav. She's sure not Moldovan at all.
Moldovans are largely the same as Romanians; both are vaguely Mediterranean cultures, share the same Romance language, and are not Slavic at all. Like Romanians, Moldovans typically have dark hair and large, expressive dark eyes. The national stereotype is the opposite of depressive and silent. (Again, the writers were thinking Slav.)
I loved this show, but the "they're all the same" take on the step-mom, who didn't even have a Moldovan name (as a classic Slavic name, Luba is uncommon in Moldova or Romania) cheapened it needlessly. Five minutes on Google would have given the writers enough real Moldovan stereotypes to play with, or they could have just made Luba Byelorussian.