Old friends on a pub crawl stumble into an alien invasion, battling for humanity with darkly comic wit.
Nostalgic and pulpy, with dry wit. A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Peacock.
Nothing past what an R promises: some innuendo or implied sex and strong violence.
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Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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