Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson Might Be Brothers in New Apple TV Series: Watch the Trailer

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have great on-screen chemistry, as anyone who watched the first season of True Detective can confirm. The upcoming Apple TV comedy series Brothers asks: What if they were related? Theoretically, the answer is “hilarity ensues.” According to the official description: Brothers follows McConaughey and Harrelson, who play fictionalized versions of themselves, and whose friendship is thrown into chaos when they uncover a decades-old secret: they might actually be brothers. After Woody’s daughter’s engagement falls apart, he loads up the family and heads to Austin for an extended stay at Matthew’s ranch. But what begins as a healing getaway quickly spirals when Matthew’s mother, Ma Mac (played by Holland Taylor), accidentally lets slip a long-buried secret that the two friends might actually be brothers. As Woody turns the ranch upside down in pursuit of the truth, Matthew finds himself juggling an entirely different identity crisis: a potential run for Governor of Texas. The result is a heartfelt, chaotic, and wildly funny story about friendship, family, fame, and the messy line between myth and reality. The first trailer, seen below, finds the tw...