Series synopsis and episode billings
Category: Press Pack ArticleSomewhere Boy is a new 8 x 30 drama by Pete Jackson (One Normal Night, Love In Recovery) from Clerkenwell Films, the makers of the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 show The End of the F***ing World.
When Danny (Lewis Gribben) was a baby, his mum was killed in a car crash. Overwhelmed with grief, his dad Steve (Rory Keenan) bought a house in the middle of nowhere and locked Danny in, telling him the world outside was full of monsters waiting to take him away. Just like they took his mum. Steve thought he’d done the right thing, bringing Danny up safe and warm, away from murderers and wars and drugs and arsehole governments and burgers and evil. For eighteen years they just stayed in, listening to Benny Goodman records and watching old movies with no sad endings. And that’s how Danny grew up. It was all he knew. And he was happy. But when Danny turns eighteen his whole world - everything he’s ever known - explodes in an instant and he has to come to terms with a new world he never knew existed. Danny is taken to live with his well-meaning but stressed-out aunt Sue (Lisa McGrillis) and cousin Aaron (Samuel Bottomley) and finds the real monster - the one that killed his mum.
Episode 1
When Danny was a baby, his dad bought a house in the middle of nowhere and locked him inside, telling him that the world outside was full of monsters. But one fateful night, everything Danny's ever known explodes in an instant.
Episode 2
Danny realises at the awkward, ill-attended funeral, that people might not have loved his dad in the way that he did. But when his aunt Sue suggests his dad might’ve lied to him, Danny’s desire to defend him is only strengthened.
Aaron is dismayed when Sue insists he bring Danny along to watch the football with his new-found mates. But Danny's preoccupation with the monster responsible for him mum's death leads both boys into trouble.
Episode 4
Having returned to Mead Farm to work off their debt, Danny embarks on a journey of discovery trying to learn more about the monster that killed his mum, whilst Aaron navigates the beginnings of a crush on farmhand Daisy.
Episode 5
At a party on the farm Danny and Aaron dance and generally have a ball. But Danny is confronted by a monstrous vision of his dad and, with his world crumbling, Danny must make one last desperate effort to defend the man he loves so much.
Episode 6
Aaron is furious with Danny for ruining his chances with Daisy and Danny is slowly falling apart, having fallen out with the only friend he’s ever had, and now being forced to re-evaluate his life inside the house with his dad.
Episode 7
A place is found for Danny in sheltered accommodation and a heartbroken Sue drops him off. With nothing left to lose, Danny embarks on an adventure across town.
Episode 8
Danny returns home, desperate for the security of when everything was simple. He sits in the cold, draughty shell that used to be his whole world, and finally, in flashback, we see Danny’s final days inside the house in full.