Genre-Bending Series Highlights Unique Storytelling

The episode opens with the lads hungover at Gareth’s flat on the morning of Dan and Lucy’s wedding. Cal receives a mysterious call from Lara, announcing her intention to breakup with Gareth, while Dan visits his upset mum, reflecting on his deceased father. Lucy is frantic to get ready with little assistance from her father Greg. As Sandra, Sadie, and Lara help Lucy, Lara reveals her breakup news.

Meanwhile, Ryan shows up at Lucy’s door, professing his love for her, prompting flashbacks of their toxic relationship before she met Dan. Gareth seeks ways to win Lara back, and Cal’s dad plans an arranged marriage for him. Gary and Jim intervene to prevent Ryan from derailing the wedding, leading to changes in venue and arrangements. Ultimately, Gareth and Lara agree to friendship, and Cal accepts the arranged marriage while harbouring his own secret.

Jim and Gary successfully ensure everyone arrives at the wedding, and Jim has a revealing conversation with Ryan about their shared history.

The episode begins with Jim’s funeral, during which a song about time travel prompts the lads to sing, embarrassing onlookers. At the graveside, Gary throws a gold ring into Jim’s grave that starts to glow. The group returns to the pub for the wake, where Gary recalls a past incident involving Jim’s death and a tragic warning.

Flashbacks reveal Jim’s role in uniting the boys during their childhood, becoming a father figure to Gareth, and connecting others like Dave and Luke. An ongoing mystery involves Jim’s supposed brother and a conflict with Ryan. Further flashbacks show Jim’s parents taking over the pub during World War II under dubious circumstances, with parallel events involving Luke’s wife, Christine. Time travel reveals Gareth’s mother had an affair with Ryan, leading to complex relationships and events that affect their lives.

In a post-credits scene, the lads visit Jim’s grave at night, only to be drawn into a fiery portal.

After waking up in their homes with a sense of deja vu, Cal meets his arranged bride, Dan learns about Lucy’s pregnancy, Luke suffers abuse from his wife Christine, and Gareth grieves his father figure Jim. They realize their day is repeating, triggered by an alien spaceship attacking London. Luke eventually stands up to Christine, who then seeks solace from Ryan, while Ryan sends her into a portal to disappear.

The friends attempt to break the time loop by learning about the aliens and confront them atop the House of Parliament, ultimately managing to thwart the destruction of London. Ryan sends one alien into a fiery portal to the eighties, causing the rest to retreat and ending the time loop, allowing the lads to resume their lives.

A post-credits scene reveals Christine arriving in London during World War II, explaining her fate.

Cal reveals to his father that he wants to cancel his wedding as he is gay, resulting in a powerful musical breakup.

Luke expresses the challenges of single parenting after Christine’s departure, depicted through a dynamic musical sequence. Dan and Lucy prepare for their new life and baby’s arrival with a heart-warming musical montage.

Gareth, while clearing Jim’s house with Lara, experiences an emotional moment suggesting mutual feelings, but they cannot act on them. Gareth abandons his attempts to reconnect with Lara and rushes to support Cal after learning of his struggles, highlighting their strong friendship through a musical flashback.

The episode ends with the lads impressing the girls by demonstrating how to sing multiple songs with the same four chords.

Gary suffers a heart attack after receiving a letter about losing the pub due to a deal made in the eighties with a company now owned by Ryan.

The lads devise a plan to steal the pub back before it goes to auction, recruiting locals for help, with Lucy using her past with Ryan. They create a distraction involving a security issue and execute their plan, breaking into Ryan’s company vault and stealing millions, leading to a car chase.

At the auction, they trick Ryan into bidding on the wrong pub in Essex, and as chaos ensues, it’s revealed his money is scattered in London.

In a post-credits scene, a mysterious figure haunting Jim is shown to have been communicating with Ryan all along.

The episode begins with Jim and Brian arguing by a Scottish lake. The lads go on a road trip for Dan’s bachelor weekend. After an accident damages their car, they walk to a nearby desolate village and find a pub where a local recounts a story about a fight involving a man in black and a man in yellow.

Suddenly, zombies attack, and they flee to their cabin. Along the way, Cal defeats a werewolf, but a vampire later resurrects it. At the cabin, a fiery portal linked to Jim’s grave appears. Luke uses a ring from Jim’s grave to seal the portal against the monsters while their friends defend him with makeshift weapons.

In Sheffield, Lucy and Lara enjoy a girls’ weekend when Lara spies their neighbour burying something large. They discover he killed his abusive wife in self-defence. As evidence is sought, Lara gets trapped, but Lucy, who is pregnant, intervenes and saves her. In a post-credits scene, Brian plots with associates to take out corrupt individuals.

In this episode, Cal is on the run from terrorists and encounters his friends who learn he is a spy for MI5. Despite his boss’s better judgment, the friends assist Cal in tracking down a terrorist plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They investigate an abandoned warehouse, where they capture Brian and learn that Cal is connected to Lara, further upsetting Gareth. After a series of confrontations, Gareth betrays and kills Brian, escapes from Cal, and plans a much larger attack with a group of Brian’s followers, which includes convincing an ally named Penny.

As the attack deadline approaches, Cal realizes that Gareth intends to blow up major internet companies. In a tense showdown, they fight, and Gareth surprisingly saves Cal from one of his own followers before the bombs detonate, causing widespread destruction and disrupting the internet. After the chaos, Cal and Lara discover that all of Gareth’s followers have been killed, leading to a revealing letter from Gareth. The episode concludes with the lads returning to their families while Gareth hides away in isolation.

Cal is isolated in a cabin while Dan and Luke are in London, and Lara is with Lucy in Sheffield on Christmas Eve. Gareth is visited by Jim, a deceased friend, who introduces him to time travel and urges him to reunite with the group. Jim tells Gareth that he will be visited by three entities: one from the past, one from the present, and one from the future.

In Sheffield, Lucy goes into labour, prompting Lara to rush her to the hospital. Lara tries to contact Dan, but Ryan sabotages his car, forcing them to find alternative transportation. After several failed attempts, they steal a plane from a nearby military airport, where they encounter Ryan, who transforms and fights them while Cal flies the plane.

Gareth’s first visitor is Dan’s deceased father, Dave, who shows him their childhood and how Jim brought them together and the truth about Ryan. Gareth saves his younger self from an accident and learns that Jim is actually his brother. Next, Lara shows Gareth the struggles she and Lucy are facing during labour. Lastly, a cloaked figure named DJ takes Gareth to a devastated future caused by the group’s separation and pleads for him to reunite with the others.

Gareth saves the crashing plane, and they reach the hospital just in time for the birth of Dan’s baby, named DJ, shocking Gareth.

The episode begins with an alien ship arriving in London, causing panic among the public. The main characters, the lads, realize they have been collecting rings from another planet, which grant them powers and are desired by the aliens to make Earth habitable for them. They open a portal to confront Brian, who reveals he manipulated events to unite them and save the world.

After a confrontation, the lads send Brian back in time to initiate plans that led to their current situation. When the aliens arrive and start fighting the lads, the rings transform them into armoured superheroes called The Keepers, inspiring the public to join the fight.

As they battle the aliens, they discover the aliens beam up their injured, allowing The Keepers to infiltrate the alien ship and blow it up, saving the day. The ensuing celebrations are bittersweet as everyone mourns until The Keepers return, revealing they were saved by time-traveling friends. The episode closes with New Year celebrations and a hint of troubles for Gareth and Lara regarding their unborn child.