Paul Seddon

Amazing and beautiful story that doesn't shy away from the more unsavoury aspects of life. The couple were real, they had real problems. They weren't a sanitised version of a gay couple that are an 'acceptable' picture of what society thinks two gay men looking to adopt should be. I'm the same generation as the older one and I don't think I've ever seen the trauma, that us gay kids in the 80s and 90s went through, be so deftly and succinctly portrayed. The cross-generational differences in the LGBTQ community was also something we don't often get to see unless it's in toxified debates about gender identity. There's a story(ies) to be told about the homophobia/bias gay (particualry male) couples can sometimes face by adoption authorities, but the absence of this left space for the rest of the story, including, just as importantly, about what adoption in this era actually is; older kids with problems and a history that the adopters have to engage with. The actor playing the biological mum at the end was absolutely brilliant, as were the rest of the actors.