It’s a little bit Danny Boyle, a little bit Guy Ritchie and a lot more harrowing than anyone tuning into a show called Stags that stars Charlie Cooper from bittersweet comedy This Country would have a right to expect. Daniel Cullen’s six-part drama takes a group of pals, sends them on a debauched week away in an unnamed South American country to celebrate the imminent nuptials of one of their number, then slams them into a godforsaken island prison run by two warring siblings and lets them scramble for survival.
Stu (Nico Mirallegro) is the stag and Ryan (Corin Silva) and Ant (Cooper) are his best mates. They are the kind of friends who come and help you find the £5,000 engagement ring you buried on a shingle beach as part of your proposal setup without really thinking the logistics through. Whether they will also be the kind of friends who can stop you getting tortured in prison is one of the questions – perhaps the most pressing – on which Stags furiously turns.
