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At Home with the Furys, review: Netflix series should have dived deeper into Tyson's mental health
The boxer and his wife Paris offer a surface-level look at their six kids, raised in the traveller tradition, and Instagram famous in-laws
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Two profiles of boxers launch this month. Hatton, a documentary about the rise and fall of Ricky Hatton, is a seriously good film documenting his troubles with sensitivity and candour. But that’s not here until August 31, so I can’t review it yet. For now we have At Home With The Furys (Netflix), which is not in the same league.
It’s a fly-on-the-wall series in which Tyson Fury, undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, shares the bill with his wife, Paris, and their brood. Let us take a moment to appreciate the names of the six little Furys: Venezuela, Prince, Tyson Jr, Valencia, Athena and Adonis. That last one comes with quite the weight of expectation.
The focus of the show is on the cheerful chaos of Fury’s domestic life in Morecambe. When it comes to the kids, Fury isn’t much of a disciplinarian. He offers them sweets as a bribe to get out of bed in the morning, and gives a proud dad smile as his 10-year-old drops the f-bomb.
The couple are also proud of their gypsy roots. Venezuela left school at 11 in the “traveller tradition”. Fury’s happy place is a caravan site a mile down the road, to which he takes off whenever he feels bored. Retirement doesn’t suit him. He begins the series by declaring that it’s time “to put my slippers on” but by the end of episode one he’s admitting that, without boxing, his purpose in life has disappeared, and he’s soon itching for another fight.
The Furys come across as a likeable couple. There are flashes of something deeper when Paris talks about her husband’s mental health. He has ADHD and depression, and has been diagnosed as bipolar. The series doesn’t shy away from his mood swings and sometimes erratic behaviour – Paris refers to him as “a giant 6 foot 9 child” – but the show prefers to keep things light. It reminded me a little of The Osbournes (the original family reality show starring Ozzy, Sharon and co) and is thankfully not as awful as the Amir Khan series Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton.
Occasionally, scenarios feel manufactured. Fury proposes to his wife in a restaurant in the South of France but they’re already married, and you suspect this is simply a ruse to give the programme-makers something to film. Some time is also given over to Fury’s brother, Tommy, and his partner, Molly-Mae. The couple met on Love Island and Molly-Mae is an Instagram influencer. Her scenes feel dull and contrived, although she can’t really be blamed: having spent her adult life in a reality TV and social media bubble, she knows no different.