'Big Boys' Season 3's Trailer Brings Us to the Final Year
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From the outside, Big Boys looks like another laddish comedy about odd couple roommates (one's straight, one's gay) becoming BFFs at uni, and their three-year journey through the rights of passage the collegiate years entail. Set in the mid-2010s, it's also a love letter to the pre-Brexit, pre-pandemic days, which feel oddly innocent already. But the series, which stars Derry Girls' "wee fella" Dylan Llewellyn as lead character, Jack, has had that same thread of grief and uncertainty of the Northern Ireland-set hit. The series begins just after the passing of Jack's father, and the sense of loss simmered under everything until the end of Season 2, when Jack finally has to face his feelings.
Hulu brought over Big Boys Seasons 1 and 2 as a set at the end of 2024 with zero warning and little fanfare, having decided to pick the series up after Season 2 won the show's creator Jack Rooke a BAFTA for writing. To be fair, it's a bit hard to promote two seasons of a show dropping at once, since here in the mid-2020s, that's usually a sign of low quality, but also the reason to watch is the turn into a darker, realer place at the end of the second season.
But the third season, which has already concluded in the U.K., has gone one better, debuting to nearly rapturous reviews. The final season is a laugh riot of cultural remember-whens and standard sitcom situations, as lives turn to their adult paths. But this is also a show set in the past, narrated from the present by Rooke himself, giving us a fictionalized version of his own life experiences, and he already knows how this all ends.
Here's the final season's official synopsis:
Season 3 will see our gang enter their final year at Brent University, with all the ups and downs of dissertations, deadlines, dating, and the devastating departure of Louis Walsh from The X-Factor (for Jack, anyway!) Peggy and Shannon embark on new romances and never-ending nappy changes, whilst Jack and Danny’s friendship is tested to its limits as they realize proper adult life is coming. Will the boys still choose each other like before, or will this be the end of the road?
Big Boys' final season will star Llewellyn, Jon Pointing (Starstruck), Katy Wix (Ghosts), Izuka Hoyle (Boiling Point), Olisa Odele (It's a Sin), Camille Coduri (Doctor Who), Harriet Webb (I May Destroy You), and Rooke as the Narrator. The supporting cast includes Annette Badland (D.I. Ray), Ian Burfield (Merlin), Sheila Reid (Bodies), Robert Gilbert (Killing Eve), Marc Warren (Van der Valk), Shane Zaza (Happy Valley), James Doherty (Endeavour), and Jake Dunn (Renegade Nell).
Rooke penned all episodes of Season 3, which are drawn from his books, Cheer The F**k Up, Good Grief, Happy Hour, and Love Letters. Jim Archer (Brian & Charles) once again directed all installments. Rooke also executive produces alongside Bertie Peek, Ash Atalla, Alex Smith, Thomas Dixon, Chelsea Chandler, and Franky Chadwick.
Big Boys Season 3 is already out in the U.K. on Channel 4; all episodes of Season 3 premiere here in the States on Hulu and Disney+ under the Hulu tile on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Big Boys Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming on Hulu now.
