TV Review: Break Clause Mines Dark Comedy From a Doomed Live-In Relationship
The six-part comedy-drama follows a couple forced to keep living together after breaking up.
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A new six-part comedy-drama, Break Clause, follows a couple who break up on the day they move in together and are then forced to keep living as flatmates for months while bound by their shared tenancy.
The series was created by Jess Bray, who has previously worked on other British comedy-dramas, and is directed by Alice Snedden.
Reviewers have described the show as drawing on a familiar wave of British comedy-dramas from the late 2010s that blended humor with emotional rawness, while noting that Break Clause carves its own tone rather than following a single predecessor directly.
The show stars Samuel Bottomley and Lara Ricote in the lead roles, with the opening episode setting up the central dilemma that drives the rest of the series.
Sources
- Break Clause review – you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never want to live with anyone again — The Guardian — Culture
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