Post by marion on Feb 21, 2021 9:56:20 GMT
Did anyone else watch this. The Russell T. Davies series about the AIDS epidemic in the Eighties, particularly as it affected the lives of a group of young flatmates in London. To say some of the group were exuberant is an understatement. Their lifestyle was pretty energetic, and of course led to disaster. The main character Ritchie I personally didn’t take to at all as he was very egocentric, but the rest of the main cast I enjoyed.
There is a female flat mate called Jill who was based on a friend of RTD, and who in fact played Jill’s mother in the series. Jill was a lovely character who was very caring, sought magazine articles from the USA to build up knowledge of the illness, worked on an AIDS help line and did hospital visiting, but had I been Jill I think I would have been quite pissed off when my flatmates carried on regardless for a time at least.
There was a rather pointless cameo by Stephen Fry as a closeted politician and the marvellous Keeley Hawes played Ritchie’s horrified mother. They lived on the Isle of Wight, Pearl! Neil Patrick Harris had a rather elegant cameo as a closeted tailor’s assistant.
I thought it was very good indeed despite some actions really annoying me, but then I guess that is the benefit of hindsight. It will no doubt be on All4 for some time and I think it is worth a look.
There is a female flat mate called Jill who was based on a friend of RTD, and who in fact played Jill’s mother in the series. Jill was a lovely character who was very caring, sought magazine articles from the USA to build up knowledge of the illness, worked on an AIDS help line and did hospital visiting, but had I been Jill I think I would have been quite pissed off when my flatmates carried on regardless for a time at least.
There was a rather pointless cameo by Stephen Fry as a closeted politician and the marvellous Keeley Hawes played Ritchie’s horrified mother. They lived on the Isle of Wight, Pearl! Neil Patrick Harris had a rather elegant cameo as a closeted tailor’s assistant.
I thought it was very good indeed despite some actions really annoying me, but then I guess that is the benefit of hindsight. It will no doubt be on All4 for some time and I think it is worth a look.
Anymore to come?
