Watch HBO’s ‘Half Man’ Trailer with Richard Gadd, Jamie Bell

The phrases “explosion of violence” are within the official description for Half Mancreator and star Richard Gadd‘s follow-up to Baby Reindeer. The trailer for the HBO restricted collection does not depict it, nevertheless it feels just like the act hangs over every bit of it.

Half Man stars Gadd and Jamie Bell as Niall and Ruben, who’ve been brothers in all however DNA since they had been children. When Niall exhibits up at Ruben’s wedding ceremony 30 years later, “everything seems different,” the present’s description reads. “He is on edge. Shifty. Not appearing like himself. And quickly, an explosion of violence takes place which catapults us again by their lives, from the eighties to the current day. Capturing 30 years within the lives of those damaged males, Half Man is a six-part restricted collection exploring brotherhood, violence, and the extraordinary fragility of male relationships. After all, when issues disintegrate, it’s typically the closest relationships that break the toughest.”

Watch the trailer beneath.

The six-episode collection is about to premiere April 23 on HBO and HBO Max and April 24 on BBC iPlayer within the UK, with over-the-air broadcasts on the BBC later that week.

The Half Man forged additionally contains Stuart Campbell, Mitchell Robertson, Neve McIntosh, Marianne McIvor, Charlie De Melo, Bilal Hasna, Julie Cullen, Amy Manson, Anjli Mohindra, Tim Downie, Tom Andrews, Philippine Velge, Stuart McQuarrie, Sandy Batchelor, Piers Ewart, Scot Greenan, and newcomers Charlotte Blackwood, Calum Manchip and Kate Robson-Stuart.

Banijay UK’s Mam Tor Productions is behind Half Man, in affiliation with Thistledown Pictures, for HBO, BBC iPlayer, BBC One, and BBC Scotland. Gadd is the creator and author and government produces with Sophie Gardiner, Anna O’Malley, Gaynor Holmes for the BBC, Gavin Smith for BBC Scotland, and Tally Garner and Morven Reid of Mam Tor Productions. Alexandra Brodski and Eshref Reybrouck directed.