FX’s 'The Full Monty' is probably not what you’re expecting
is probably not what you’re expecting. An eight-episode sequel to the 1997 British film turned cultural phenomenon about a ragtag crew of laid-off Sheffield steelworkers who form a-style—except, as the title implies, fully nude—male revue would, you might fairly presume, have something to do with stripping. It doesn’t, really. A few flashbacks aside, the series simply revisits the movie’s characters a quarter-century later.
Created by the film’s screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy, whose credits now include such socially conscious awards-season dramas as, the sequel clearly means to pick up where the original left off in its critique of class in post-industrial Britain. On paper, it’s a good idea—and there are moments when it delivers on that potential. Yet the overall randomness and dearth of joy in this, make it a puzzling follow-up to a film that charmed millions with its lighthearted social commentary.
Along with droll dialogue from Beaufoy and co-writer Alice Nutter , the show’s greatest asset is its lovable cast. Robert Carlyle returns as Gaz, a charismatic schemer who put the troupe together in order to retain partial custody of his young son, Nathan. Twenty-five years later, the boy has grown up to be his dad’s polar opposite—a cop—who can’t afford the motorized wheelchair his own son, Ben , needs. It is Gaz’s younger child, a teenage music savant named Destiny, a.k.a.
From Gaz and the wheelchair to the money pit that is Lomper and Dennis’ sandwich joint, everyone has problems that a more robust social safety net would mitigate. A lack of reliable income is often, but not always, the problem. Gaz works in a psych ward where patients rarely receive the personalized care they need. Lonely Darren gets drawn into the housing woes of afamily in his middle-class neighborhood.
It’s a lot: six point-of-view characters carried over from the movie, plus a handful of new faces, each with their own ongoing story lines. The mood of these plots varies wildly; while Lomper’s foray into pigeon smuggling could be categorized as broad crime comedy and Dez gets a classic coming-of-age arc, Horse’s melodrama is like something out of. Sometimes the show approaches the effortless humor of its predecessor.
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