Stanley and the Women(1991)

Stanley and the Women is a British drama series that follows a man whose carefully ordered life unravels when his son receives a schizophrenia diagnosis. As Stanley Duke navigates his son's mental health crisis, tensions escalate between his ex-wife, current wife, and the various women who populate his world. The series explores how a family fractures under the weight of psychiatric illness, examining Stanley's own failings as a father and husband while the women around him clash over how best to help the troubled young man. Dark and psychologically complex, the show dissects masculinity, responsibility, and the collateral damage of emotional avoidance in a household pushed to its breaking point.