It's Not the Waking, It's the Rising

What should had been an emotional uplifting finale fell flat to me. Another sign that this sequel to the movie The Full Monty was misconceived.

Horse has died and Gaz is shocked at the cost of a funeral. He steals Horse's body and stores in the chest freezer at the Grand Pain. To ensure Horse does not have a pauper's grave.

Eventually the lads decide Horse should go out like a Viking. A funeral pyre on the Yorkshire hills. The local community come round to give him a send off.

Sadly this was Tom Wilkinson's last appearance, he died in 2023. It was clear he was ill in this series and his character did not feature much.

It also did not help that actor Hugo Speer was fired midway through the production. It meant the flashback scenes from the original movie did not hit the mark for me.