SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for the series finale of the HBO/BBC drama “Half Man,” now streaming on HBO Max. For the past six weeks, Richard Gadd’s sophomore drama, “Half Man,” kept viewers on tenterhooks as they waited to find out what actually went down between his character Ruben and Jamie Bell’s Niall in […]

Richard Gadd set tongues wagging with the sometimes excruciatingly autobiographical Baby Reindeer, an only somewhat fictionalized account of how Gadd was stalked by a lonely woman in his local bar in London. The show was a massive hit, and a lawsuit duly followed. Fortunately, viewers are taking his return to the small screen in Half […]

Perhaps the most emotionally and physically demanding sequence of “Half Man” — and given the high drama of the HBO limited series, that’s saying a lot — took less than a day to shoot. “We finished 15 minutes early,” series creator, director and star Richard Gadd tells Variety in a Making a Scene conversation presented […]

Richard Gadd is fast establishing himself as the master of uncomfortable viewing. If “Baby Reindeer,” the super-viral 2024 Netflix series he wrote and starred in, raised difficult questions about masculinity, power and sexuality, his follow-up, “Half Man,” does the same — on steroids. The HBO/BBC co-prod, which ends its six-episode run on May 28, follows […]