Tip Toe

“Do I think it’s coming back?” “Yeah.” “It’s back, you fucking idiot. Right now. It’s here. It’s a storm, it’s a tide, it’s a great big tsunami and we’re in the middle of it right now. Do I think it’s coming back? You know, if you’d asked me in 1996, ‘What do you think 2026 will be like?’ I’d have said ‘Glory days. We’ll have equality, we’ll have love and kisses, we’ll be holding hands skipping down the streets.’ but they tricked us, didn’t they? They just waited. Oh, they let us all come out, so now we’re standing in the open, ready for them to shoot us down.” “You think that, really.” “Look at me, I’m as out and as proud as anything, but… past couple of years, I’m a lot more careful.” “You just started a great big row.” “On Canal Street. Home turf. But out there… I used to walk into a room and just go ‘Ta-da.’ …now I tiptoe, just in case.” I feel like this really would have benefitted without the immediate reveal of what happens to Leo. Alan Cumming and David Morrissey are both exceptional in this - Although, some other characters feel more like stereotypes rather than actual people, the show still manages to convey the current issues surrounding LGBTQ discussions. The way Morrissey would use his face to demonstrate how Clive was thinking, I swear I have seen my own dad pull those faces The real standout and character who should have had more screen time - Melba, portrayed by Paul Rhys; the entire drag is a protest crash out had me feeling seen, the corporatisation and monetisation of LGBTQ spaces for the sake of profits is honestly what keeps me at an arms length from that entire side of my personality. I feel like I would get on with Melba I wish it didn’t end with the text finishing what happens after the story, it felt very distracting from the events that had just happened