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Cucumber

★ 7.8 4K votes 2015–2015 1 season · 8 episodes Ended Channel 4
Queer storiesLGBTQ+ lives and relationships at the center.This show: 10/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 9/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 9/10Sexually explicitFrank sexual content.This show: 8/10Contemporary lifeRecognizably the present day, ordinary life included.This show: 8/10Dialogue-drivenThe writing's voice is the main event.This show: 7/10MelancholicA wistful sadness woven through the story, even in its lighter moments.This show: 7/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Vincent FranklinJulie HesmondhalghJames MurrayFisayo AkinadeFreddie FoxCeallach Spellman
Starring
Vincent FranklinJulie HesmondhalghJames MurrayFisayo AkinadeFreddie FoxCeallach Spellman
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"Midlife unraveling played for both laughs and hurt"

Cucumber follows Henry, a middle-aged gay man in Manchester whose nine-year relationship implodes after one mortifying, farcical evening, sending him spiraling into a messier, riskier chapter of his life. Created by Russell T Davies, it's frank, funny, and often cringingly honest about desire, jealousy, and the gap between who you want to be and who you are. The tone swings from sharp comedy to real heartbreak, anchored by a lead performance that makes Henry's self-sabotage painfully relatable rather than pathetic.》It's a character study more than a plot-driven drama, intimate and talky.

Watch it for

the unflinching, funny-sad portrait of a man realizing his life hasn't turned out how he planned.

Maybe skip if

you want fast plotting rather than a slow character-driven unraveling.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Miniseries2015
8.11K86h 4m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.17.4
20445 min
▶2Episode #1.27.5
16646 min
▶3Episode #1.38.1
16747 min
▶4Episode #1.47.8
15443 min
▶5Episode #1.57.9
14245 min
▶6Episode #1.69.2
30446 min
▶7Episode #1.78.3
14847 min
▶8Episode #1.88.1
13545 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Vincent Franklin Henry Best
Julie Hesmondhalgh Cleo Whitaker
James Murray Daniel Coltrane
Fisayo Akinade Dean Monroe
Freddie Fox Freddie Baxter
Ceallach Spellman Adam Whitaker
Eleanor Worthington-Cox Molly Whitaker
Cyril Nri Lance Sullivan
Anjli Mohindra Veronica Chandra
Con O'Neill Cliff Costello

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