![]() ![]() Lomper (Steve Huison) is married (Paul Clayton plays his husband), though Guy (Hugo Speer) is still around, briefly, with Speer having been dismissed from the show over allegations of questionable behavior. ![]() Gaz (Robert Carlyle) is still a bit of a dreamer, only now with a teenage daughter (Talitha Wing) to consider, while Dave (Mark Addy) works at the local school along with his wife Jean (Lesley Sharp), with trouble having crept into their relationship. The narrative finds the old characters generally worse for wear, facing various financial and personal hardships in Sheffield, which hasn’t rebounded from the industrial loss and unemployment that brought them together initially. Today, the hunger for streaming content has produced a flood of material from across the globe, though often in series form, the chosen path here.ĭeveloping by original screenwriter Simon Beaufoy with Alice Nutter, this “Full Monty” peaks early, it turns out, by noting that it’s 26 years and “seven prime ministers later” since the movie. The British comedy obviously came at a very different time, one where an import breaking through into the US market to such commercial success was more unusual. Most of the gang returns, but it’s a reunion largely in search of a concept, which taps into the economic desperation that motivated their original strip routine without the lightness to offset that. “The Fully Monty” quickly reveals itself to be one of those revivals that’s all dressed up with no place to go, squandering enthusiasm for this transformation of the genial 1997 box-office hit into an eight-episode series. ![]()
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