Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson’s ‘Brothers’ TV show is so fake it hurts

Let's get this out of the way: Longtime friends, "True Detective" co-stars and Hollywood muckity-mucks Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson found out a decade or so ago that they might be half-brothers. In 2023, they revealed it to the public, and now, in 2026, they have turned that crazy family secret/scandal into a TV show about … themselves.

Yes, Apple TV's "Brothers" (streaming Wednesdays, ★★ out of four) is a show about two old friends who find out they might be half brothers, named Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. The Oscar winner and three-time Oscar nominee, respectively, play somewhat heightened (one can only imagine) versions of themselves going through the existential crisis of learning their family may not be what it seems. And every so often, an Uber passenger asks, "Are you really Matthew McConaughey?"

It's a wild and deeply navel-gazing concept from two wild and navel-gazing stars (just look at their recent cringey and overlong Emmy appearance). It dances along the line between "huh, how funny and weird!" and "who cares if these two rich guys I don't know are secretly related?"

And it's not like they are giving away answers to the ultimate question: Publicly McConaughey and Harrelson…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/entertainment/