Warning: clearly there are spoilers forward for Hulu’s 4 Weddings and a Funeral!

It is all there within the title: somebody’s going to die when a present is named 4 Weddings and a Funeral. Hulu’s adaptation of the traditional 1994 British rom-com spreads out its storylines over the course of 10 episodes, slightly than a single two-hour film, however the premise and format of the title stay the identical. So who’s the unfortunate character on this iteration?

4 episodes in, we discover out. The “funeral” within the title is for Quentin (Tom Mison), the perpetually drunk husband of posh ice queen Gemma (Zoe Boyle). Though not one of the characters are precise replicas of these within the authentic movie — in actual fact, it is surprisingly tough to attract any form of actual character parallels between the unique solid and this crew of characters — Quentin’s loss of life is certainly a shout-out to the storyline of the unique. Within the movie, the character of Gareth dies out of the blue, and he is the drunk English man in that group, which is the position that Quentin performs in Hulu’s fashionable replace.

Actor Mison is, surprisingly, not a comic book actor primarily. He is greatest identified within the sci-fi/fantasy world for taking part in a wry model of Ichabod Crane for 4 seasons of the cult-favorite Fox drama Sleepy Hole. On the heels of 4 Weddings and a Funeral, in actual fact, Mison is returning to the sci-fi world as soon as extra. He is slated to play Marcos Maez, aka Mime, one half of a husband-wife prison duo, within the upcoming HBO adaptation of Watchmen.

The Hulu model of 4 Weddings and a Funeral, helmed by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton, positively tells a unique story for a unique set of characters, however the general premise stays the identical. A gaggle of younger professionals, led by Maya (performed by Sport of Thrones vet Nathalie Emmanuel), get their study-abroad group again collectively for the 30th party of one in all them. After all, they’ve all acquired messy private lives, and romantic shenanigans ensue as their lives intersect once more.