Half Man Unmasks Toxic Masculinity in a Gut-Wrenching HBO Miniseries

The Cut’s Michel Ghanem hails Richard Gadd’s Half Man as a brutally honest six-episode HBO miniseries about two Scottish stepbrothers whose increasingly tangled past examines masculinity, vulnerability, and queer identity across three decades, anchored by powerhouse performances (notably Jamie Bell) and an unflinching look at how toxic manhood shapes desire, family, and self-acceptance.