Full Monty TV show

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Anyone watching?

Loved the first episode, especially the intro which echoed the film’s intro.

Like Destiny as a character very much. And pleased theyre touching on difficult subjects

Just watched the first five minutes of the film and yes, Gaz was always a prick 🤣

It had some really good bits and some really bad bits. DH liked it much more than I did but I found it Ok. Quite a few silly "social justice" type topics. The boring old fart and the asylum seeker with the heart of gold, naff. Horse being expected to work. Destiny (who looked 35) being admired for her horrific behaviour and the shoehorning of her sexuality, with her best friend, what luck. The (rather too old) headteacher who had no process for getting work done in the school building, sacking a teacher and closing a department on the same day. And, and, and...

The film opens with him nicking steel girders from his old workplace so yeah I’d say so

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Im also mad with Dave for not kicking Jean to the kerb. The fact she used their son’s death as an excuse for her affair was horrific. And she was such a bitch to her friend in the woods, being insulting about her lack of allure with men and snarky comments being a victim of her mother’s emotional abuse. All because her mate didn’t leap for joy after finding out her former friend, who already sacked her, had been shagging the man she fancied.

IRL Jean would be lying in that wood in a bunch of twigs, winded with her stupid dog licking her.

I did like Dave’s relationship with the dog though - he claims to hate her but clearly adores her and takes such good care of her!

I thought of another niggle - in episode 1 it’s revealed Destiny is in year 12, so sixth form. Would she really bother her arse to go to sixth form when she barely even attends school?!

I liked it bit surely Horse was of pensionable age?

A bit too heavy handed on the social justice issues, which are all things I care about, but I thought too much artistic license to get the point across.

I was really disappointed in this. I thought it was generally dreary and the writing poor - corny and basic. The tick-boxy feel (where was the transgender character? I guess that'll be in the second series) also was annoying. And no offence to Lesley Sharp, but the romance between Jean and Dilip I just did not buy at all.

Actually I found it very realistic and not at all 'woke.' What happened to Horse is exactly what happened to my Uncle, disabled and unable to work since his 20s, he was declared 100% fit for work in his 60s and all benefits stopped. Had he not been able to rely on his parents in their 80s to house and feed him for several weeks while his brother, GP (fortunately who has known him most of his adult life) and a CAB adviser appealed the decision he would be dead now. Social care in this country is broken and fair play to the Full Monty for highlighting this.

Loved the series so much! Didn't quite buy Jean's character arc though and Gary is played much softer now, he had more of an edge in the film.

I quite liked it. It was a nice reminder of how 90s films and series did touch on lots of social issues.
I couldn't believe how emotionally invested I was in some eggs!

I'm looking forward to watching this. Though disappointed that apparently Guy (didn't realise he was Dr. Foster from Skins) has been written out after four episodes. Some sort of allegations I think.

At the end, when Destiny said to Cal 'I wish you were a girl', I think he said something like 'maybe I can'

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I really enjoyed it. There was a lot wrong with it. The plot jumped about a lot and I think an episode per character might have worked better.
There were ridiculously implausible parts like the school falling apart, sacking the teacher just like that, Korean man moving in with Lumper and husband, the debt collectors seemed to just disappear,kid in foster care for taking an overdose, the finale which whilst beautiful and emotional would never have happened.

There were the usual police procedural issues and Nathan would firstly never have passed vetting in the first place due to his fathers criminal history and still being in contact with him and as an inspector would hardly ever shift his arse out operationally so often!

I loved the job centre siege - silly but British humour at its best! I agree Horse was way past retirement age (he was over 50 in the film) but I got what the writers were trying to achieve and show about the Britain we live in today. And the realisation his pride about not accepting charity while starving was greater than his ability to accept it.

I didn't really care about Jean that much. Her and Dilip did seem an unlikely match but stranger things happen in real life.

While I think the actor playing Destiny was excellent, im not convinced she was needed at all. The side story of her abusive mother and dodgy partners was ok but I think there was a lost opportunity to do something better with her as Gaz's daughter.

The reason I can put all the flaws aside is because (apart from Jean) I liked and cared about the characters. Darren as a new character was just so understated but powerful and he slotted in with the established cast so well. I wonder if that was always the plan or Hugo Speer going created a gap that needed filling. His relationship with Silven was lovely.

It was like meeting up with a load of mates after 25 years and finding out what they were up to and feeling warm and fuzzy despite the flaws.

I think someone mentioned that Tom Wilkinson was a bit part. He's 75 and although only a couple of years older than Paul Barber, he didn't look in the best of health to me.

Tom Wilkinson is Gerald?

I shall have to watch this later!

Yes he plays Gerald

He was one of my favourite characters.

I annoyed we didn’t see what happened to Guy and his pregnant fiance!!

i have seen episode 1 and a bit of episode 2,
i am enjoying it and want to finish

I thought it got better over the series although the last episode was mostly ridiculous

I just finished it last night and I agree. Wouldn't somebody have noticed Horse's body missing from the morgue? And what about the aftermath of the unofficial cremation, did they all just bugger off home and leave his burned body where it was? It ruined the end of the series a bit for me, it would have been better if they'd successfully taken the body back and let MSC pay for the dignified funeral that Horse deserved.

FionnulaTheCooler I totally agree and made me wonder how much of the rest we were supposed to take seriously. Very little

I enjoyed watching it - was absolutely hooting with joy at all the bottles of Hendos in the café - and even enjoyed the bits at the football stadium even though it was the wrong team.

I hope there will be a further series. I really want to know why random Korean guy was shoved into the plot though. Seeing Sheffield really made me homesick. But I'm going back next month, so all good.

(oh but "baps" FFS. They're called bloody BREADCAKES in Sheffield)