Richard Gadd Addresses The Shocking Violence Of ‘Half Man’: “If You Pull Your Punches, You Won’t Get Anywhere At All”

Half Man finally bares its teeth in Episode 2.

This week’s episode of Richard Gadd’s HBO show Half Man demonstrates just how far the show is willing to go in its exploration of “male rage,” as Gadd described it in a recent chat with DECIDER.

“Had we done the show and not shown the extremity of that, I think we would have been doing a disservice to the story,” the actor said.

**Major spoilers for Half Man Episode 2 below!**

In Half Man Episode 2, Ruben (Stuart Campbell) brutally attacks Niall’s (Mitchell Robertson) flatmate Albie, sending Albie (Bilal Hasna) to the hospital and Ruben to jail. Niall had just begun attending university in Glasgow where he could get a fresh start away from Ruben’s influence, or “see what life is like without his light blinding your eyes,” as his mother

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