Lomper, Horse, Gaz, Dave (with Chelsea by his leg), Jean, Destiny, Gerald. Also featured: Lewis (upper LH corner)
The Full Monty (2023) is a sequel series to the 1997 British film of the same name starring most of the same cast and once again written by co-creator Simon Beaufoy. It premiered on FX/Hulu in June 14, 2023.
Set in Sheffield, England, the series film follows up with the lives of six men, 26 years after their attempt to make money as strippers. Things have not gotten much better. Gaz is a porter at a psychiatric hospital and tries to connect with his daughter, Destiny; Gerald is a retiree; Dave is a caretaker at the academy where his wife is head teacher; Lomper owns a café and hides a secret from his husband; Guy is the CEO of a property management company and is engaged to Yvonne; and Horse is struggling to get by on disability benefits.
Tropes new to the series:
- Accidental Theft: Destiny and her friend Cal cut classes and go to the mall, where they run off with a car that has the key still on the ignition. Then they look back... and realize that they drove off with Chelsea, a dog who just won Britain's Got Talent.
- Afraid of Blood: Having reached his Despair Event Horizon, a suicidal Horse snatches a knife from a guy who is laying carpet in the waiting room. He nicks himself in the neck, and the blood makes the carpetlayer faint. Twice.
- Due to the Dead: After Horse dies, the others refuse to let him have a pauper's burial (a mass grave, and a stick with his name on it). They end up putting him in a coffin made by Darren and burning him in a pyre, accompanied by the Revenge Choir.
- Delinquent Hair: Destiny. She wears most of her hair long and curly, but has buzzed off the left side of her hair. It's notorious enough that people talk about her as "the one with the hair". It goes nicely with her facial piercings and tattoos.
- Dying Alone: Horse abandons the hospital after overhearing staff discuss whether he is well enough to discharge to make room for incoming patients. The exertion involved is too much for him and he dies alone on the bus stop.
- Entendre Failure: Lomper is out there promoting the diner, "Get your Big Baps here!" Tabani asks him if he has any idea how offensive that is, but he is totally oblivious to "baps"note also being slang for breasts.
- Fired Teacher: Jean is forced to fire Hetty, the music teacher, because the school is in dire need of repairs but the only money available in the budget is teacher salaries. To add insult to injury, the two are friends.
- Gratuitous French: Dennis changes the café's name from Big Baps to Le Grand Pain ("the big loaf"). However many people can't tell the name is in a foreign language and make jokes about grand pains.
- Healthcare Motivation: Gaz's grandson Ben uses a wheelchair but his father cannot afford a motorized wheelchair. This drives Gaz to return Chelsea (the dog his daughter stole by accident), expecting a reward. Instead, Chelsea's manager would rather Gaz kill Chelsea so he can collect insurance and offers 10,000 quid to Gaz to do the dirty deed.
- Horrible Housing: Horse starts out the show as barely getting by on disability benefits. His apartment is crowded with all sorts of junk. And then he gets evicted.
- Insurance Fraud: Gaz is offered ten thousand pounds if he kills Chelsea so that her manager (even though his daughter is the owner and adores Chelsea) can collect a fat premium.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Dave befriends Dean, a 12-year-old student, after he finds the boy has been nicking food from the school kitchen.
- Lecherous Stepparent: Destiny is changing in her room and notices Brian, her mum's boyfriend, staring at her. To make things worse, her mother believes him over her.
- No Medication for Me: Gaz sees that Ant is being overmedicated at the hospital and takes it upon himself to help him taper off his meds (without any kind of professional oversight). Ant gets discharged to a halfway house and instead of continuing to taper off, he dumps his meds down the sink. He ends up having to return to the hospital after a psychotic break.
- Out of Focus: Gerald had a major plot line (unconfessed unemployment) in the original film. Now all he does is hang out at the café and be snarky.
- Parental Neglect: Destiny gets it from both Yaz and Gaz:
- Yaz, Destiny's mom is oblivious to Brian, her boyfriend stealing her twin daughters' lunch money, so Destiny gives them hers and bullies Dean to get his money. She is also more likely to take his side over Destiny's in any conflict.
- Gaz loves his daughter Destiny but continually lets her down due to his idiotic schemes.
- Pregnant Hostage: Yvonne, Guy's fiancée, when she enters the welfare office. It's there where the truth about Guy's deception comes out, from her engagement ring being made of paste to Guy claiming he had a stag party in Budapest.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: After Hetty is fired, she has Destiny gather any student who doesn't have anything better to do. Hetty ends up as director of the Revenge Choir, which specializes in singing songs with profane lyrics. Loudly. On school grounds. As Hetty gloats, she is a volunteer so she cannot be terminated.
- Smart Animal, Average Human: Gaz shows off Britain's Got Talent winner Chelsea's tricks to Dave, who brings up this trope about Chelsea and Gaz.
- Sucky School: The Sheffield Spires Academy. The bathrooms are flooded and that leads to the music room's ceiling collapsing in the middle of class. The teacher notices the leak in time and gets her students out just in time.
- Sympathetic Adulterer: Jean, when we learn what motivated the affair (she and Dave lost an infant son and they never spoke about it).
- Tagline: "Older. None the wiser."
