The Full Monty (2023)

Matt Roush says...

Life goes on, some 26 years later, for the shaggy-dog working-class heroes of 1997’s feel-good hit movie from the U.K. An eight-part dramedy from FX revisits the Full Monty characters in their left-behind burg of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, led once again by the charismatic Robert Carlyle as Gaz, who once upon a time urged his buddies to join him in an infamous strip routine. They mostly keep their shirts on and their heads down in this sequel, where the tone is set in the first episode by Gaz’s rebellious teenage daughter Destiny (Talitha Wing, a find) who inadvertently kidnaps a dog that won the Britain’s Got Talent contest, setting off a chain of amusing but heart-rending consequences. The entire season is available for binge-watching, but I’d take it slow. Sheffield is a tough place to visit. You wouldn’t want to live there.

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