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title: "G'wed"
year: 2024
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canonical: "https://film.one/tv/gwed"
fi1m_id: "gwed"
imdb_id: "tt28510783"
tmdb_id: 245412
wikidata_id: "Q126050511"
fi1m_score: 68
critics_reviews: 2
published: "2026-10-07T20:18:58.169521+00:00"
updated: "2026-10-07T20:19:05.359261+00:00"
region: "US"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# G'wed (2024)

Created by Danny Kenny · Comedy

## Identity

G'wed

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/gwed
- **Type:** Series
- **Fi1m ID:** gwed
- **IMDb ID:** tt28510783
- **TMDB ID:** 245412
- **Wikidata ID:** Q126050511
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28510783/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/245412, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126050511

**Fi1m score: 68** · Critics: 2 of 6 reviews so far

*In a sentence:* Six episodes of teenagers shouting over each other in a Liverpool classroom, and somehow the quiet mum gets the best lines

> Danny Kenny’s Liverpool school sitcom is quick, warm and often properly funny, with a young cast who talk over each other like real friends. It is also played at a volume that tires the ear, and it is best when it slows down, which is not often.

## Synopsis

A Liverpool comprehensive, the present day, and a Year 11 class that never stops talking. Reece (Dylan Thomas Smith) is the loudest boy in the class: quick, rude, generous when nobody is looking, and the one everyone follows whether they mean to or not. Into his orbit comes Christopher (Jake Kenny-Byrne), the new boy, whose vowels and manners mark him out before he has reached his desk, and who badly wants to be one of them. Ziad (Malek Alkoni), who has arrived from Syria, is already learning the local dialect faster than the curriculum. At home, Reece’s mum Jodie (Leanne Best) runs a kitchen where the insults are affectionate and the money is tight. Around them, Mo (Zak Douglas), Mia-Louise (Gemma Barraclough) and Aimee (Amber Harrison) fill the corridors, the chip shop and the bus stop with the business of being sixteen.

## Review

Danny Kenny has written a sitcom about a Liverpool comprehensive and filled it with teenagers who never stop talking. That is the joke and the method. *G’wed* follows Reece (Dylan Thomas Smith), the class livewire, as he adopts Christopher (Jake Kenny-Byrne), the new boy whose accent arrived from somewhere with more trees, and the two of them, with Ziad (Malek Alkoni), spend each episode getting into trouble that is mostly their own fault. It is a likeable, fast, frequently funny thing, and it is decent rather than more than that. It is also exhausting in a way that we will try to explain.

The cast is the reason to watch. Smith plays Reece as a boy who has worked out that if he is the loudest person in any room nobody will ask him anything, and he lets you see the working. Kenny-Byrne has the harder job, since Christopher is the straight man and the outsider, and he manages to be both without turning into a pair of glasses with a surname. Alkoni’s Ziad gets the best running gag in the first series, which is simply that he has picked up the slang quicker than anyone wants him to. The three of them talk over each other the way actual friends do, half a sentence each, and when the scripts let that happen without a punchline attached it is the most convincing thing on screen.

Leanne Best is the anchor, and the series knows it. Jodie, Reece’s mum, is written as the tired adult in a show full of children, and Best plays her with the patience of a woman who has heard every excuse and is quietly fond of the boy making them. There is a kitchen scene, early on, where Reece is lying to her and she lets him finish, and we found ourselves more touched than a show this noisy had any business making us. It was the waiting that did it. Everyone else in *G’wed* is trying to be heard; Best gets her effects by not bothering.

Chloe English and Akaash Meeda direct, and they have chosen pace over everything else. Thomas Perrett cuts the classroom scenes so that no line is allowed to breathe before the next one lands on top of it, and for a while that is exhilarating. By the third episode it is simply tiring. Jokes that would have earned a laugh if they had been given a second are trampled by the one behind them, and the few moments of feeling have to shout to be noticed. The series is at its best when it stops moving: Jodie’s kitchen, a bus stop, two boys walking home. Those scenes are rarer than they should be.

It will be compared to [*The Inbetweeners*](https://film.one/tv/the-inbetweeners), and the comparison is fair as far as it goes. Both are about boys who are less worldly than they pretend; both run on humiliation. What Kenny adds is a city. Liverpool on television is usually a football ground or a crime scene, and here it is a school, a chippy and a front room, with people who are funny because they are from there and not in spite of it. The Syrian boy, the posh boy and the Scouse boy are all outsiders in slightly different directions, and the show gets real comedy out of none of them quite admitting it. It does not do much with the girls in the first series; Gemma Barraclough’s Mia-Louise and Amber Harrison’s Aimee are given attitude and little else, and we noticed.

The first run is six episodes, and it has since grown to a second of five and a third of seven, which suggests somebody believed in it, and they were right to. We can see what it wants to be: a school comedy with a heart that does not apologise for the heart. It gets there in bursts. If you were ever sixteen in a town that television does not usually bother with, you will recognise most of it. Watch two episodes at a time and no more; it is a show that is better in small doses, and it would not thank us for saying so.

*Fi1m score 68, published 7 October 2026.*

## What the critics say

With only 2 reviews in so far, the picture is thin but friendly. Both critics find G’wed lively and funny, and both single out the young cast, with The Guardian praising how naturally the ensemble plays together. The i Paper goes further, arguing the third series has grown past its early Inbetweeners comparisons into something with heart and some sharper social observation beneath the crude jokes. The one reservation, from The Guardian, is pace: the show can feel hyperactive, and that is the gap between a warm three-star notice and an outright rave.

## Straight answers

**Is G'wed worth watching?**

*G'wed* is worth watching for anyone who wants a quick, warm Liverpool school sitcom with a young cast who talk like real friends, and we scored it 68. It is played loud and fast enough to tire the ear by the third episode, and Leanne Best's quieter scenes as Reece's mum are the best thing in it. Take it two episodes at a time.

**Where can I watch G'wed in the US?**

*G'wed* is not on any streaming or rental service in the US at the moment. It is available in 1 other country; change your country at the top of the page to see where. Availability is checked daily.

**How does G'wed compare to The Inbetweeners?**

*G'wed* is the louder and more affectionate of the two, and [*The Inbetweeners*](https://film.one/tv/the-inbetweeners) is the sharper and more consistently funny. Both run on teenage boys pretending to be worldlier than they are, but Danny Kenny adds a city, with Liverpool as school, chippy and front room rather than football ground or crime scene. Neither series gives its girls much to do.

**What should I watch after G'wed?**

After *G'wed*, try [*The Inbetweeners*](https://film.one/tv/the-inbetweeners) (2008, Fi1m 84): The obvious ancestor: four boys, one sixth form, and humiliation as a way of life. Then [*Derry Girls*](https://film.one/tv/derry-girls) (2018, Fi1m 83): Another school comedy that lets a city’s accent carry the jokes, and finds the sadness underneath; and [*Freaks and Geeks*](https://film.one/tv/freaks-and-geeks) (1999, Fi1m 88): Slower, American and kinder, with the same instinct that teenagers deserve to be taken seriously.

### Reviews we read (2)

- **The i Paper**, Jon O'Brien (90/100, inferred): The critic calls the third series a funny, relatable sitcom that has grown beyond its early comparisons to The Inbetweeners. They praise its deft mix of crude comedy, heart and nuanced social commentary. [Read](https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/gwed-best-sitcom-since-the-inbetweeners-4460996)
- **The Guardian**, Barbara Ellen (★★★): Ellen finds G’Wed a lively, cheeky comedy, though at times it feels hyperactive. She especially praises the young cast’s seamless ensemble playing. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/11/the-week-in-tv-one-day-david-nicholls-ambika-mod-leo-woodall-review-piers-morgan-uncensored-rishi-sunak-up-close-curb-your-enthusiasm-gwed-liverpool-school-drama)

## Details

- **Created by:** Danny Kenny
- **Creator:** Danny Kenny
- **Director:** Akaash Meeda, Chloe English
- **Writer:** Danny Kenny
- **Editor:** Thomas Perrett
- **Cast:** Jake Kenny-Byrne as Christopher; Dylan Thomas Smith as Reece; Malek Alkoni as Ziad; Leanne Best as Jodie; Paddy Rowan as Lewis; Zak Douglas as Mo; Gemma Barraclough as Mia-Louise; Matthew Devlin as Kieron
- **Release (the US):** 5 February 2024
- **Genres:** Comedy

## Where to watch in the US

Not streaming, renting or buying in the US at the last check.

Also available in: GB. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country.

## If you liked this

- *The Inbetweeners* (2008), Fi1m 84: The obvious ancestor: four boys, one sixth form, and humiliation as a way of life — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/the-inbetweeners.md)
- *Derry Girls* (2018), Fi1m 83: Another school comedy that lets a city’s accent carry the jokes, and finds the sadness underneath — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/derry-girls.md)
- *Freaks and Geeks* (1999), Fi1m 88: Slower, American and kinder, with the same instinct that teenagers deserve to be taken seriously — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/freaks-and-geeks.md)
- *The Young Offenders* (2018): Two Cork lads, one bicycle, a great deal of shouting, and a mother who runs the show
- *Big Boys* (2022): Jack Rooke’s university comedy does the heart-and-filth balance that G’wed is reaching for

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