Joe Gilgun
- Actor and executive producer
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Brassic review
Cartoonish capers give us a break from reality.
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 8th May 2020Joe Gilgun interview
'I can be underestimated - I'm not an idiot'.
Morgan Jeffery, Radio Times, 7th May 2020Brassic, series 2 episode 1 review
This madcap comedy caper is endearing but exhausting.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 7th May 2020Brassic series two review
Vinnie and the gang decide to rob a circus, as Joseph Gilgun's hit comedy - part-Shameless, part-Ocean's Eleven - returns for a second run.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 7th May 2020Joe Gilgun: 'Stealing all day is hard graft'
In my experience working-class people are f***ing heroes," Joe Gilgun tells me from behind a cloud of vape smoke.
Annie Lord, The Independent, 7th May 2020Sky extends Brassic to Series 3
Sky One has ordered a third series of its hit new comedy drama Brassic, before the second series has even aired.
British Comedy Guide, 13th February 2020Joe Gilgun's Shameless successor is still joyriding through rural Lancashire at a breakneck pace. This week's wild ride involves a raid on a rival weed grower's farm and an encounter with Erin's on-the-run brother Ronnie. Plus Dominic West is back as Vinnie's hilariously self-involved GP, Dr Cox.
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 12th September 2019Brassic is a new comedy from Shameless writer Danny Brocklehurst and actor Joe Gilgun (Woody in This Is England). Vinnie (Gilgun), sharp, witty, bipolar, is first seen wanting to jump off a bridge in the fictional northern town of Hawley, then launching into a Trainspotting-esque spiel ("Fuck the middle class, fuck the Guardian", etc). Vinnie thinks that life is "about having your mates, having a laugh, just finding a way to survive". Duly, this week's opening two episodes involved him, his best mate, Dylan (Damien Molony), and their gang becoming embroiled in hectic, caper-strewn plots encompassing everything from the kidnapping of Shetland ponies via dealing with underground fatbergs to hostile crime bosses.
Deeper themes lurk in Brassic, not least Vinnie's condition (Gilgun has bipolar disorder in real life), and Dylan's partner, young mum, Erin (Michelle Keegan), refusing to go along with the culture of extended adolescence, at one point acidly remarking to Vinnie that there appeared to be "three of them" in her and Dylan's relationship. "If it is, I'm the one getting the least sex", quipped Vinnie. On this showing, Brassic is funny, scratchy, surprising (Dominic West shows up as a useless, self-absorbed doctor), and promises to get darker.
Barbara Ellen, The Guardian, 25th August 2019TV review: Brassic, series 1 episode 1
The ongoing plot looks intriguing as well with Gilgun's narration informing us at the end of the episode that this was the moment that everything changed for him, and I certainly plan to stick around and find out just how that happens.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 24th August 2019Brassic review
This caper about a gang of friends creating their own entertainment on this and that side of the law brings to mind the best of Shameless.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 22nd August 2019