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Fiction.. a fantasy.. the reality of closeted married men in minority communities is grim. It's not a jolly jape. Lies, repression, survival, hurt, shame and alienation from all sides. This is a dreadful woke dollop of nonsense. Unwatchable. Real life mr lovermen isn't like this. Wife's lives are devasted, children hurt. Just come out and live an honest life.

Life and death intertwined. Everyday evil. Perfectly human. Ghastly realism.

There are moments when coogans comedy breaks through such as when he tells the girls in the back of his car to clunk click (referring to a TV safety advert jimmy saville did for the public to use seat belts). Which are unintentionally grossly funny and harm the seriousness of the topic. The silence of the establishment is defeaning such as the royal family, the Roman Catholic church, stoke Mandeville, bbc etc etc It's a great time capsule of a programmme but was coogan brave or a distraction?