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At Home with the Furys is a British fly-on-the-wall television documentary series about the WBC heavyweight boxer Tyson Fury and his family. The first season was released by Netflix on 16 August 2023. Shortly after the first season aired, the series was renewed for a second series.

Premise

The series follows Tyson Fury, the heavyweight boxing champion, as he exits the ring and tries to embrace retirement with his family including his wife Paris, father John, and his six children.

The documentary deals with themes of grief, mental health, bipolar disorder, addiction, travellers, religion, coming-of-age and parenting.

It is filmed mostly on location in Morecambe, Lancashire and in Cheshire. Several episodes in the first series are filmed across Europe; Iceland, Cannes, Mallorca, London and the Isle of Man.

Episodes

Overview

Season 1 (2023)

Reception

The reviews were mostly favourable, with 73/100 rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Deborah Ross, a critic at The Mail on Sunday, described it as "reality TV gold" and gave the first season a 4/5 rating.

In a review for The Independent, Rachel McGrath noted that "it's not the heavyweight champ who is the breakout star". McGrath expanded on the idea that "Fury is our modern-day Ozzy – a man whose intense career couldn't be further from stay-at-home dad, now thrown into domestic life. His existence is one of wild juxtapositions." She gave the documentary a 3/5 rating.

In a more scathing review for The Guardian, Jack Seale gave the documentary a 2/5 rating, stating in article's foreword "this sluggish celebrity family show is like Keeping Up With the Kardashians – but set in Morecambe. You can't blame Tyson for wanting to get back in the ring".

Two days after Netflix aired the 9-episode first series of the documentary, the BBC ran an article claiming that "critics praise mental health depiction in Netflix show". The article claims that "in a four-star review, the Evening Standard said: "There are too many silly moments to count, but there are also unexpectedly profound ones". The article references Rachel McGrath's review saying she "awarded the series three stars, writing: "Netflix don't seem to have realised that the lead star being bored isn't the best starting point for a series about family life."

In her four-star review, Carol Midgley of The Times suggested the show occasionally "feels scripted", noting the Furys know that "the cameras are on them and perhaps act up for them".

According to The Daily Telegraph's Anita Singh, generally the Furys "come across as a likeable couple". She gave the first season a 3/5 rating.

References

1. Lucretia Munro (4 September 2023). "Netflix 'make decision' on At Home with Fury's after Tyson said he wanted to quit series". Mirror. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
2. Rachel McGrath. "At Home with the Furys review: There's a breakout star in boxing's first family". Independent. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
3. Jack Seale (16 August 2023). "At Home With the Furys review – how have they made the boxer's life look so excruciatingly dull?". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
4. "At Home With The Furys: Critics praise mental health depiction in Netflix show". BBC News. 18 August 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
5. Carol Midgley (16 August 2023). "At Home with the Furys review — Tyson makes a knockout subject for this series". The Times. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
6. Anita Singh (16 August 2023). "At Home with the Furys, review: Netflix series should have dived deeper into Tyson's mental health". Telegraph. Retrieved 5 September 2023.

External links

• At Home with the Furys at IMDb

• British English-language television shows
• Netflix original documentary television series
• 2020s British reality television series
• 2023 British television series debuts