We can talk for hours of mode of use, narrative construction, distribution, all the themes we want, but it is then the content to really make the difference. Once again HBO is a catalyst for excellence with Richard Gadd Half Man’s new jewel. For those who are lost in countless platforms and in the many titles that come out every week, the HBO Max subscription is worth doing and Half Man the miniseries to see.
Half Man is part of a championship. It cannot be judged as any other TV series or miniseries. A product written above Gadd, which had already amazed everyone with Baby Reindeer. Not one of those miniseries that seem forced, an elongated film or a reduced series, but a product designed for this type of use and especially designed for weekly release which is another added value of HBO and HBO Max. While everyone is chasing fast series, the need to add content not to get you out of the platform, HBO captures you with quality. There is no need for much noise when there is something that really speaks to you.
And Half Man speaks to everyone, without judging anyone and giving us in the final one of the most beautiful, intense, moving scenes. That confrontation between Niall and Ruben, that really speaks for the first time, understanding how simple a dialogue would avoid years of reciprocal suffering, is a dick in the face of the poor viewer, who inevitably thinks of all the unspoken ones left in the head. Niall is a boy, before, and a man, after, who would always and constantly be what is not, lives in search of an ideal of stereotypical and conventional perfection. And that’s why he’s worn out by the pain of not being what others want.
Ruben, his elective brother, decided to embrace the role that society has assigned to him. The bully, the violent, the rough, knows to have a kind soul, to seek the serenity and tranquility of others, but is overwhelmed by conventions, by those same chains that seem to deny. It’s two Half Man, two incomplete men trying to make up for each other, but they end up eliminating each other. Serenity is impossible to one another, only by learning to live alone to be well with oneself and to ignore all the background noise that surrounds us, we could all really live.
Half Man is the show. Brutal, violent, aggressive, definitely not consoling or absolute, probably does not respond to the conventions expected in the serial construction. It doesn’t allow you to really love any character, end up hating them all after you love them, but you love them because Niall and Ruben are more or less within each of us.
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