Recap / The Durrells S 1 E 1

• Double Standard: Played for Laughs
  • Margo is taken aback at the mere prospect.
    Margo: There's one rule for men and one for women, isn't there?
    Larry: Have you only just noticed?
    Margo: I've been busy growing up. How long has this been going on?
  • Louisa is happier at the prospect of Leslie dating than Margo. This is partly because a girlfriend distracts Leslie from his worrisome interest in guns.
    Margo: I mention wanting a boyfriend, and you call me empty-headed and sex-mad, but Leslie finds someone and he's a hero?
    Louisa: Firstly, Margo, I am thrilled that you are thinking for yourself and highlighting double standards. And secondly, don't you dare be so bloody rude to your mother.
• Incest Subtext: Played for Laughs
  Larry: She needs a man.
  Leslie: Don't you dare talk about Mother like that. I look after her.
  Larry: Let me lend you a paper by Freud called the Oedipus Complex.
  Leslie: I expect that's really clever, but nobody cares.
• Selective Obliviousness: When Gerry suggests that they are the cause of their mother's unhappiness, his siblings dismiss the idea.
  Larry: You know what her problem is?
  Gerry: Don't you think we're the problem?
  Margo: No.
  Leslie: Don't be absurd.
• You Need to Get Laid: Larry declarers this is the cause of their mother's unhappiness — not her kids' behavior — and decides to play matchmaker and find her someone.
  Larry: You know what her problem is? [...] She needs a man. [...] The body is built for sex. Gerry knows—he watched animals mating.
  Leslie: You're obsessed with sex.
  Larry: At last, we agree on something. And since I'm not getting any, at least we can help Mother.