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Big Boys (Final season)

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2025

Big Boys (Final season, 2025, UK)

Creator & Writer: Jack Rooke

Director: Jim Archer

Mini-review:

I've been putting off watching this because I wasn't ready to say goodbye yet, and I was right to do so. As always, this show can take you from laughing out loud to ugly crying in the span of a few seconds, and sometimes both at the same time. The second half gets particularly dramatic, with a finale that broke my heart in pieces, serving as a harrowing love letter to a specific character/person. But don't worry: there are plenty of laughs to be found throughout these final six episodes. It's honestly impressive how fast the show and its characters burrow into your heart, despite having only eighteen 30-minute episodes; a true testament to the talents of Jack Rooke, Jim Archer and the cast. I will be missing Big Boys with all my soul.

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Medusa Deluxe (2022) Thomas Hardiman

March 8th 2024

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Film after film: Medusa Deluxe (dir. Thomas Hardiman, 2022)

It's a bit a film about nothing, but it's extremely watchable. The plot is simple, it deflates weirdly and interestingly by its end: there's an art-hairdressing competition, and someone gets murdered. Everyone stays in the industrial building that the competition was to take place and waits, reacts to, and gets anxious about the murder. The film's main trick is that it pretends to be one continuous shot, which conditions the plot's development: there are three people in the room, someone leaves, the camera follows them until they get elsewhere, where there are other people, and so on. There are some beautiful performances here, especially from Perkins, who's the film's prickly heart. The ending can annoy, but I loved it.

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michaela coel + paapa essiedu + weruche opia + michelle greenidge + lauren-joy willams + danielle vitalis + harriet webb

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Wreck Trailer

Jamie is a new recruit aboard The Sacramentum cruise ship. Jamie isn’t an ordinary new hire, though, as he hopes to “infiltrate a crew of 1000 people to find his missing sister who vanished on the previous tour aboard the same vessel. Watch as Jamie, and his new found friends, work together to uncover the sinister truth that runs as wide and deep as the ocean on which they’re trapped.” (Hulu)

Wreck is created and written by Ryan J. Brown. The horror comedy series stars Oscar Kennedy (Jamie Walsh), Jodie Tyack, Thaddea Graham, Louis Boyer, Warren James Dunning, Harriet Webb, Anthony Rickman, Amber Grappy, James Phoon, Diego Andres, Peter Claffey, Miya Ocego, Ramanique Ahluwalia, and Alice Nokes.

Wreck hits Hulu on March 1, 2023.

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Supporting Performance, 2020

Ashlee Grubbs as Maura, PEN15, Season 2.1

Weruche Opia as Terry, I May Destroy You

Cat Rodriguez as Eva Maria / Catherine Maria Rodriguez / Alexia, Circle Jerk

Paul Raci as Joe, Sound of Metal

Paapa Essiedu as Kwame, I May Destroy You

Talia Ryder as Skylar, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Faith Alabi as Jenny, We Are Who We Are

Debra Winger as Theresa, Kajillionaire

Jane Adams as Jane, She Dies Tomorrow

Harriet Webb as Theodora, I May Destroy You

Sônia Braga as Domingas, Bacurau

Dylan Gage as Gabe, PEN15, Season 2.1

Bachi Valishvili as Irakli, And Then We Danced

Matthew Macfadyen as Wilcock, The Assistant

Naomi Ackie as Hazel, Small Axe: Education

Gail Cronauer as Mabel Blanche, The Vast of Night

Spence Moore II as Danny Poythress, We Are Who We Are

Brian Dennehy as Del, Driveways

Bachi Valishvili as Irakli, And Then We Danced

Chloë Sevigny as Chloe, Slow Machine

All of the scary teenagers in The Dove and the Wolf

Adèle Haenel as Denise, Deerskin

Gage Graham-Arbuthnot as Ira Vos, Possessor

Candice Bergen as Roberta, Let Them All Talk

Alice Krige as Witch, Gretel & Hansel

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I May Destroy You (2020), written and created by Michaela Coel.

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Big Boys (Seasons 1 & 2)

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Big Boys (Seasons 1 & 2, 2022/24, UK)

Director: Jim Archer

Writer: Jack Rooke

Mini-review:

Wow, this show is really good. There's only 12 episodes (for now), but it manages to include a lot of brilliant moments in such a short time. It's a great portrayal of those years where you finally start to find yourself and become the person you truly want to be. And its exploration of themes like queerness and mental health is hilarious, but also realistic and heartwarming. I do wish the episodes were longer, so that we could see more of the characters building their bond early on, but the excellent cast more than makes up for that. Jon Pointing does a particularly superb job: his beautiful performance is both riotously funny and achingly sad. So yeah, Big Boys was a very pleasant surprise and I'll be looking forward to future seasons.