Your dad's dying, your stepbrother's hot, and your therapist is on speed dial.
Struggling to accept her age, her boyfriend’s love and her father’s indifference, Maria spots an opportunity to feel young, free and desirable at her father’s wedding, where she meets Raffy, her new stepbrother. Their obvious, if inconvenient, sexual chemistry is made worse by the news that her father has been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Writing
Amstell's signature brutal honesty about awkward humans
Acting
Jones makes midlife crisis feel viscerally real
Direction
Balances genuine grief with spectacular social horror
Director
Simon Amstell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Amstell wrote this during his own father's decline, explaining the raw specificity of terminal illness scenes.
Jonathan Bailey plays against his Bridgerton romantic-lead image as a desperate, clingy boyfriend—casting that deliberately weaponizes audience expectations.
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