At Home With The Furys: Critics praise mental health depiction in Netflix show

Critics person praised Tyson Fury's caller docu-series for shining a airy connected his intelligence wellness issues.

While astir reviews agreed Netflix's At Home With The Furys was lightweight overall, galore highlighted its depiction of the boxer's day-to-day struggles.

In a four-star review, the Evening Standard said: "There are excessively galore silly moments to count, but determination are besides unexpectedly profound ones."

The Times said it was "multi-layered, flipping betwixt airy and dark".

The nine-episode world series, released earlier this week, follows the heavyweight satellite champion arsenic helium retires from boxing and embraces household life.

Filmed chiefly successful Fury's flashy household location successful Morecambe, it's an often-revealing look astatine the sportsman, his woman Paris and their 5 children.

Fury was diagnosed arsenic bipolar successful 2017, and has struggled with depression, anxiety, intoxicant addiction and cocaine abuse.

The Independent's Rachel McGrath awarded the bid 3 stars, writing: "Netflix don't look to person realised that the pb prima being bored isn't the champion starting constituent for a bid astir household life.

"And yet, arsenic At Home With The Furys unfolds, I recovered myself unexpectedly empathising with Fury. But the amusement has a agelong mode to spell earlier reaching the melodramatic heights of its world TV predecessors."

She continued: "His beingness is 1 of chaotic juxtapositions. Fury likes taking the kids camping adjacent his house. When helium travels connected a fund airline, he's mobbed by fans wrong seconds of stepping disconnected a plane. But Netflix's absorption is connected the banal; betwixt Selling Sunset-style shots of Morecambe, the boxer picks up canine poo, works retired with dada John, and unwraps socks connected his birthday.

"Bubbling beneath each country are Fury's intelligence wellness struggles... His issues were astatine their highest erstwhile helium had suicidal thoughts during his archetypal status successful 2015, and the amusement documents the underlying fearfulness that this could hap again."

Fury's member Tommy and his influencer spouse Molly-Mae Hague, who helium met connected Love Island, besides marque appearances successful the show.

There was little enthusiasm for the bid from the Guardian's Jack Seale, who described the bid arsenic "sappingly dull" successful a two-star review.

"Like a middling journeyman boxer, the bid suffers connected relationship of its sluggish absorption time," helium suggested. "Two of the aboriginal episodes absorption connected Tyson's effort to lure Anthony Joshua into an all-British rubric fight, successful a rehash of what was a large boxing communicative erstwhile it happened.

"The agelong clip lag and the known result - a woody volition ne'er beryllium struck - marque those scenes stale, but they travel aft the halfway constituent successful the season, by which constituent At Home With the Furys is starting to tally retired of material."

But Carol Midgley of the Times praised the docu-series, writing: "One of the reasons it works is due to the fact that it is multi-layered, flipping betwixt airy and dark, with nary 1 taking themselves excessively seriously".

"But astatine the aforesaid clip determination is simply a superior point: Tyson's intelligence health," she added.

In her four-star reappraisal Midgley suggested the amusement occasionally "feels scripted", noting the Furys cognize that "the cameras are connected them and possibly enactment up for them".

"Apparently determination were points erstwhile helium wanted to cancel the documentary. But yet they are an bonzer household who person managed to stay ordinary. Fury has a nett worthy of £51 cardinal and they're inactive drinking Echo Falls. I similar them for that."

"There are flashes of thing deeper erstwhile Paris talks astir her husband's intelligence health," she wrote successful her three-star review.

"The bid doesn't shy distant from his temper swings and sometimes erratic behaviour - Paris refers to him arsenic 'a elephantine 6 ft 9 child' - but the amusement prefers to support things light.

"Occasionally, scenarios consciousness manufactured. Fury proposes to his woman successful a edifice successful the South of France but they're already married, and you fishy this is simply a ruse to springiness the programme-makers thing to film."

"That is mostly due to the fact that each subordinate of said household is perfectly bonkers," she said successful her four-star review.

"The six kids (three of whom are named Prince) curse similar implicit troupers, long-suffering woman Paris is near to support everything connected the roadworthy and there's much gilt connected the household casa than the Sistine Chapel."

She said immoderate of the footage is "both howl-inducingly comic and wincingly awkward".

"The amusement intersperses the enactment with straight-to-camera pieces wherever the household unfastened up astir the effect Tyson's intelligence wellness has had connected them, and connected him.

"This isn't the Kardashians, but it's arguably much compelling: Fame with the varnish stripped off, unsmooth and unfiltered. It's the cleanable benignant of trash: Give it to maine straight. I emotion it."

Fury, 35, is besides known arsenic the Gypsy King and was calved successful Manchester to an Irish Traveller family.

Last year, the boxer called connected the government to present stronger punishments for weapon transgression aft his relative was killed successful a stabbing.

Ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Fury released his debut single, a screen of Neil Diamond's classical Sweet Caroline, to rise wealth for men's intelligence wellness foundation Talk Club.

Writing astir his Netflix series, Emily Watkins of iNews concluded: "In past Rome, Tyson mightiness person been a gladiator; successful 6th-century Britain, idiosyncratic similar Beowulf.

"In 2023, whether he's helping his kids connected the monkey bars oregon grooming to sound retired a nemesis, Tyson is arsenic analyzable arsenic helium is charismatic - conscionable the mode we've ever liked our heroes."