At Home With the Furys Review: The latest sports reality docuseries despite showcasing a heavyweight champion boxer fails to deliver. Directed by Tina Flintoff, Nick Hornby and Josh Jacobs, the cast includes Tyson Fury, Paris Fury (Tyson’s wife), John Fury (Tyson’s father), Tommy Fury (Tyson’s half-brother), and Molly Mae Hague (Tommy’s wife). The series has a total of 9 episodes ranging from 40 minutes to 30 minutes approx. each.
Is retirement as easy and peaceful as it sounds? Will heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury emerge victorious when pitted against his strongest competitor i.e. retirement? Well, the fight here is with the self and giving up is not an option.
At Home With The Furys Plot/Synopsis
Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury lives with his wife and kids in his Morecambe mansion in England. After winning numerous championships as a heavyweight boxer, he has to prove himself as a good husband, a caring father and a loving son (interchange the adjectives as you like). He has to serve his retirement but it is not as easy and laid-back as it sounds. The reality documentary shows how well the champion is able to manage his retirement life and how he copes with the fact that he shall no longer box.
At Home With the Furys Review: Discussion
The way the documentary shows every facet of Tyson’s family life, especially his relationship with his wife including their dynamic that is ever-changing, almost on a daily basis, is peculiarly real considering they have cameras around them at all times other than when they are asleep.
We find out about Tyson’s bipolar disorder and his PTSD and how Paris has to deal with it all the time. We also get to know about how he loves to spend time with his kids and prefers a more organic outlook towards life. The show does take a deep dive into their personal lives (and not just his) to show that part of the champion that was hitherto unexplored.
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We are literally thrown into the middle of Tyson’s life when he has just begun with his retired life, at 33 years of age. It makes sense as retirement itself was something that seemed to have been thrown at him as well despite him being the one to have made up his mind about it. So the abruptness is effective without having provided us with all his achievements because that’s not what the show is about.
However, I feel that 9 episodes were way too long for a temporary retirement spanning only a few months. Some might find the show boring due to the length but some wouldn’t, especially his fans. After a point, we get to see the same aspects over and over again, like Tyson’s expression of the bipolar disorder, how it impacts his reactions towards things and how Paris has to keep up with it. It wouldn’t be unusual for viewers to just skip sections of the episodes.
Thankfully, the final episode ends with a fight although it’s sad that the makers didn’t delve into it as much as they could have. The whole show, via Tyson’s struggle with retirement, is a build-up for the fight itself which serves as a reassurance for him that he is a champion and his decision to retire isn’t because he has lost his edge but because he needs to move on to all the other things that life has to offer. This part could have been covered better.
At Home With the Furys Netflix Review: Final Thoughts
Overall, the docuseries is a one-time watch and that too if you want to know about the other side of Tyson Fury. Other than that, it offers nothing new although a lot could have been achieved. A documentary feature could have worked a lot better.
The docuseries is now streaming on Netflix.
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