"Fawn" author Richard Gadd is back with "Half-Man," a hopeless (even too much) series. Unlike teenagers, a quiet one and a bully, become brothers - and ruin each other's lives

In June, the HBO miniseries Half-Man, about the complex relationship between two brothers, the hot-tempered Reuben and the quiet Niall, ended. This is the second streaming project from actor and screenwriter Richard Gadd, whose debut Fawn turned out to be a major hit of 2024. Viewers and reviewers received the new series, although kindly, but not as enthusiastically as the previous one. The press rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 78 percent approval, and the public on IMDb is 8.1 out of 10 (for comparison, “Fawn” received 99 percent approval from journalists and 7.7 from audiences, and based on a much larger number of ratings). Film critic Alexey Skvortsov tells why “Half-Man” did not become a hit, despite all the author’s ambitions.