{"id":547864,"date":"2026-04-24T07:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:31:08","slug":"half-man-is-a-brutal-drama-that-puts-the-fear-of-gadd-into-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547864\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Man is a brutal drama that puts the fear of Gadd into you"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this blended, blighted family, fear has a different hold on Niall, played as an adolescent by Mitchell Robertson.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, Niall’s path is set on a lifelong collision course with Ruben, his “brother from another lover”, brought to life in his younger years by Stuart Campbell.<\/p>\n

It’s a decade in which homophobia has taken a seat at many families’ dinner tables.<\/p>\n

As Niall’s gaze lingers on a poster of shirtless men and his nerves skyrocket in the company of girls, he may still be under an illusion – but we aren’t.<\/p>\n

The Aids crisis is devastatingly rampant and Scotland is having its own, distinct grapple<\/a> with it.<\/p>\n

No good comes from Niall being in the closet, but he’s convinced far worse would come from stepping out of it. <\/p>\n

The journey that fear takes him on isn’t a slow-motion car crash, it’s a full-throttle run of joyless rides.<\/p>\n

No one is safe from being collateral damage by the time Jamie Bell plays Niall later in life.<\/p>\n

Time passes and society shifts, but Niall either can’t see others’ fear, or he’s too consumed by his own to care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this blended, blighted family, fear has a different hold on Niall, played as an adolescent by Mitchell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}