After creating waves globally with Baby Reindeer, Emmy Award-winning creator Richard Gadd returns with Half Man, which discusses male friendship, violence, and trauma. The film, along with Gadd, also stars Jamie Bell and Stuart Campbell.

The six-episode series, which also follows the footsteps of Baby Reindeer to win acclaim worldwide, will make its Indian debut exclusively in Lionsgate Play on July 3.

The series revolves around the complex relationship dynamics between Niall and his estranged 'brother' Ruben, who shows up at the former's wedding, leading to an explosion of violence that catapults us back through their lives. The show explores a span of almost 40 years from the 1980s to the present day, capturing the highs and lows of the brothers' relationship from meeting as teenagers to their falling out as adults. The show attempts to get to the bottom of the most debated and pertinent question: What does it mean to be a man? It portrays a changing city and a changing world.

Saying that several aspects of toxic masculinity are largely unexplored, Gadd shares that in his earlier works, he discussed masculinity in his own context of struggling with being a man, and in Half Man, he focuses on the idea itself. "To me, it feels like the debate about men has reached quite a high pitch and, at the same time, become somewhat simplified. “Toxic masculinity” is a phrase we hear a lot, and while it can risk feeling overused, it’s also being discussed so widely for a reason. What’s interesting is that, despite that visibility, there are still aspects of it that haven’t yet been fully explored in the mainstream. I think that much of how society has been structured can lead to men having an inability to express themselves and express love and vulnerability, so it felt interesting to posit that conversation through Niall and Ruben.”

Bell adds that Niall and Ruben were both built by time and culture into adults. "The series looks at how their time together has shaped them as adults and at the same time, how the culture around them growing up has done that too. More specifically, the series explores what their personal relationship with their own sense of masculinity is and what being a man means to them both, and how complex that is.”