Scripted series
The Disappointments
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Disappointments actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Disappointments reads strongest on Character Depth, Humour and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
Three gay men navigate middle age, its trials and triumphs. After the death of a close friend, they must support each other as they examine the idea that maybe things didn't work out exactly as planned.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 13 episodes.
- Poster unavailableSeason 1 (Director's Cut)
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1 (Director's Cut)
20265 episodes
The original webseries has been re-edited into five twenty-five minute episodes -- as they were originally intended to be seen. Now with extended scenes between Ray and Dwight restored and other fun extras. Watch The Disappointments as it was meant to be seen!
- Poster unavailableSeason 2
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20268 episodes
Ray, Gary and James each find themselves with new and exciting employment possibilities that could actually turn their disappointing lives around, while also managing new challenges in their personal lives. Ray, struggling to move on after his breakup with Dwight, lands a job writing on an animated series for young girls and discovers he’s an awkward fit in a room full of Gen-Z writers. Gary finds himself hired to be the co-host of a talk show and prepares to shoot the pilot while a very unexpected relationship sprouts up in his life. And newly-licensed real estate agent James manages to find a mentor in a prestigious Beverly Hills realty firm, only for complications to arise when the two men enter into a kinky sexual affair.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Rich BurnsWriter
Direction
- Rich BurnsDirector
Where to watch
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