Touching on toxic masculinity and broken families, this new Sky Max sitcom follows two brothers reconnecting after years of estrangement
– loud and silly with a surprisingly soft heart. Touching on toxic masculinity and broken families, it follows two brothers reconnecting after years of estrangement.
Dyer plays alpha male Lee Campbell as a caricature of himself. A truly 2024 geezer, swilling lager while lecturing binmen about the environment, Lee barrelled back into his estranged brother Glen’s comparatively boring life like a sweary bull in a beige china shop. Ostensibly, he is on the trail of family friend Steve Drummond and while after two episodes his precise motives are still opaque, there is clearly more at stake than simply rekindling old friendships.
Glen – played by Ryan Sampson, the series’ writer and creator – is the polar opposite of his colourful brother. Before Lee appeared, Glen’s main preoccupations were getting a promotion at the Leyton carpet showroom where he worked and tending to his lukewarm relationship with fiancée Kirsty as their wedding approached.
But while Lee is painted in broad strokes, Kirsty gets more three-dimensional by the minute – Webb’s taut keeping-up-with-the-Joneses façade, peeling at the edges, is masterful. Returning home unexpectedly one lunchtime, Glen finds her scrolling on her phone in bed rather than at work – and although she quickly makes up a story her rictus grin indicates something else.
When she bumps into an ex-colleague, we learn that Kirsty has been suspended from her job – something Glen knows nothing about. The women’s saccharine interaction, loaded with backhanded barbs – “A lot of stuff did go missing… I just hope you’re OK” – was delightfully tense, and ultimately humiliating for Kirsty when a tube of lipstick she’d pocketed rolled across the floor.Less nuanced, the gulf between assertive Lee and timid Glen begins to look dangerously teachable as the show goes on.
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