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TV review – Together: He said, She said…I say, James McAvoy can do no wrong

© BBC / Arty Films Ltd / Peter MouWARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 08/06/2021 - Programme Name: Together - TX: n/a - Episode: Together  (No. n/a) - Picture Shows:  She (SHARON HORGAN), He (JAMES MCAVOY) - (C) Arty Films Ltd - Photographer: Peter Mountain
WARNING: Embargoed for publication until 00:00:01 on 08/06/2021 - Programme Name: Together - TX: n/a - Episode: Together (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: She (SHARON HORGAN), He (JAMES MCAVOY) - (C) Arty Films Ltd - Photographer: Peter Mountain

James McAvoy seemingly can’t nip out for a pint of milk without nearby women swooning into hedges while saying he’s effortlessly cool and a hero to ladies everywhere for doing the shopping.

Yet when I pick up a jug of semi-skimmed there’s barely a grunt of thanks from anyone. What’s that about?

McAvoy popped up with a small piece to camera before the England v Scotland match the other week and could only have been more well received among women if he’d somehow scored a late winner and shouted “dresses should have pockets” at the cameras.

Not even Together can make fans dislike wee James. This was a darkly comic drama that evoked as much grimacing as it did laughter.

McAvoy’s character, called He, is a selfish Tory dad opposite Sharon Horgan’s She, a whining liberal.

The pair talked to the camera and each other at the same time, segueing between comic monologues about shopping during the pandemic one moment to spitting venom at each other the next.

Still the wonderful Horgan and McAvoy managed to carry this slice of chattering domestic hell.

He and She were divided along political lines yet were stuck together for the sake of their son, a decision referred to as the “sunlit uplands of stupidity”. For a polarised nation it all seemed so painfully true.


Together is available to watch on BBC iPlayer