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McConaughey and Harrelson’s Disjointed ‘Brothers’ Coasts on Charm
What actually works is, not surprisingly, the buddy-comedy stuff—the sillier, the better. Matthew and Woody squished into a rideshare with too many rowdy, young fans? A treat. Woody and Matthew donning ridiculous Sunset Strip rocker disguises, complete with facial prosthetics, to play an acoustic set at a coffee shop? Classic. Showrunner Lee Eisenberg (Stick, The Office), who created Brothers alongside McConaughey, Harrelson, and Schitt’s Creek alum David West Read, understands his leads’ personae, and they’re more than game to laugh at themselves. The series opens by showing us the versions that live in the public imagination; Woody enters smoking a joint and holding a surfboard, while Matthew roams the sun-dappled fields of Texas, sipping whisky in a cowboy hat as he recites an excerpt from his megahit memoir Greenlights in voiceover. He plays the charismatic, image-conscious, golden-boy straight man to Woody’s free-thinking hippie, a guy who doesn’t let fame stop him being as weird as he wants to be.
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