It Gets Worse: Leo Reich’s Showtime Comedy Sends Three Best Friends From Eviction Notice to Dance Floor

Reel Perspectives

November 6, 2026

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Getting kicked out of your London flat is a good reason to stay in and figure out your next move. Ethan, Abi, and Sam decide it’s a better reason to go clubbing. That’s how It Gets Worse kicks off, and it tells you plenty about the three best friends at the center of Showtime’s new British comedy. Comedian Leo Reich created, wrote, and executive produced the six-part series from A24 and stars alongside Emily Fairn and Olive Gray.

Reich plays Ethan, who finds something more urgent than his housing situation to obsess over when he meets Sam’s new housemate, Aaron (Dane Williams). Fairn’s Abi looks like the one with her life together thanks to a promotion and a flat she shares with her boyfriend, Tom (Sean Delaney), but one chaotic dinner party is enough to shake that impression. And Gray’s Sam decides a warehouse sex party is the place to bring her new hookup, Tess, which goes about as smoothly as you’d expect. These three have been friends since university, long enough to know exactly how to cheer each other up and exactly what to say when they’re tired of being nice.

Andrew Scott drops in as Brian, a therapist the series introduces in the premiere, while Lena Dunham, Chicken Shop Date host Amelia Dimoldenberg, and Blake Harrison guest star as Greta, Emily, and Roger. India Mullen and John Tothill round out the ensemble as Zara and Leon, and White Teeth novelist Zadie Smith narrates. The guest list is a draw, but the funniest setup is right there in the flat. These friends can turn a night out into a fight and still want to tell each other about it the next morning.

All six episodes premiered November 6 and are streaming on Showtime and Paramount+ Premium.