Men Only is a provocative two-part drama about the dark side of modern masculinity. What do men want, what do women want from them, and can the two ever be reconciled? Our men are a five-a-side football team from South London. Only they're too old, too slow, too under the thumb at home to waste their precious Tuesday nights kicking a ball around and losing every time. So the football stops and the excitement starts. They begin in lap-dancing bars, but soon they want more. Porn. Violence. Sex. Class A's. What happens on Tuesday nights should never go home. But one night they finally go too far, and the two worlds look set to collide
Acting
Martin Freeman's pre-fame nervous breakdown is genuinely haunting.
Direction
Peter Webber builds dread like a horror film in cargo shorts.
Director
Peter Webber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Martin Freeman's first major TV role before The Office made him famous — you can see the same anxious energy that would define Tim Canterbury.
Men Only aired the same year as Fight Club's UK release, part of a wave of late-'90s/early-'00s media interrogating white male rage before 'incel' entered the lexicon.
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