Brothers review – Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey’s super-fun sitcom about the chance they’re related

The actors co-star in a lightly fictionalised meta-comedy about their real-life bromance – and possible sharing of parents. It’s a tasty little treat The cheek! The indulgence! The privilege!

Did anyone, anywhere in 2026, look up from news of a world in flames and say, what we really need now is a meta-comedy where two actors play gently self-satirising fictional versions of themselves? They did not, and yet here are Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. They once co-starred in the first season of True Detective , one of TV’s darkest and best crime dramas, but otherwise their personae have them as lifelong besties who are both…