Deli Boys poster

Deli Boys(2025)

Archived · Hulu

7.26 eps
S02
DramaComedyCrime
ON AIR: MAY 28Season 2Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Deli Boys runs on the specific comedy of catastrophic unpreparedness: two brothers who grew up cushioned by their father's money suddenly find themselves holding the keys to a criminal empire they had no idea existed. The genre mix is crime and comedy in roughly equal measure, with danger escalating just as the brothers' incompetence becomes most visible.

The sibling dynamic is where the friction lives. These are two men who have never had to prove themselves to anyone, now forced to prove themselves to people who will not accept failure politely. Their Pakistani-American family identity shapes the pressure rather than decorating it, feeding into both the humor and the genuine consequences of what they stand to lose.

Best for

family conflict, crime comedy and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Comedy

Commitment

Season 2 · 6 episodes

Where

Hulu

Official Premise

When their convenience-store-magnate father dies, a pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers lose everything and are forced to reckon with their Baba's secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld.

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