Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd’s new show Half Man, another portrait of tortured and toxic masculinity, drips with homoeroticism. Sexiness, however, is in short supply, as the creator/writer/star’s latest (April 23, on HBO) is a six-episode saga of domination, humiliation, need, self-loathing, intolerance, and violence whose anguish and anger are matched only by its obviousness and repetitiveness.
Gadd may have bulked up to play the part of a villainous aggro alpha, but the eagerly awaited follow-up to his Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning hit is, by and large, a slight and transparent tale of closeted torment and co-dependent craziness.
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