Only one scene in the new series comes close to reprising the old stripping routine—in circumstances bleak enough for Beckett
suicide, sexual dysfunction, the impending repossession of a sunbed: in “The Full Monty” all manner of woes inspired six former steelworkers to strip to their birthday suits for a raucous paying audience. Gaz, their ringleader, played by Robert Carlyle, was an ex-con at risk of losing contact with his son. Overweight and depressed, his best pal Dave feared for his marriage. All six were adrift and emasculated in the post-industrial world. It was a hoot.
It was also a toe-tapping ode to the dance music of the Seventies and Eighties, from “Hot Stuff” to “You Sexy Thing”. Coming out at a moment when British culture had clout, the film was an international hit. A quarter of a century on, the gang are back in an eight-part series of the same name, out on June 14th on Hulu in America and Disney+ elsewhere.
This sounds twee, and it is. At the same time the mood is much grimmer than the original’s, and not only because everyone keeps their clothes on. The film had decay and despair but also the gentleness of a fable. Here, beneath the antics and confectionary, the wider world is desolate. The school’s ceilings leak. Hospitals are creaking. The welfare system is a cruel obstacle course. People go hungry.
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