This one's a beautiful, tender, quiet romantic drama with a moody atmosphere, set in a tight knit Welsh fishing community. It's a touching story about a man waking up sexually in the middle of his life, and how he, his family, and everyone around him deal with it, which makes it emotional and sentimental without ever getting over the top. The slow burn plays out against a landscape that's as bleak as it is gorgeous, where quiet, closed off men are stuck inside rigid ideas of what masculinity should be. Some people might be reminded of "God's Own Country," but I think both films are lovely in their own way. Jack is a middle aged guy who co-owns a mussel farm with his rough around the edges brother Dyfan, and the tension between the two of them is simmering under the surface right from the start. Dyfan's three sons all help out with the work, while Jack's sulky teenage son Tom keeps skipping out. Jack's been with his wife since they were both 16, and...
Quarantine is about to start and every one has gone home except Judah. His mother works in Canada and he doesn't want go live with his granny since he feels she is homophobic. To his surprise another guy Rocky is also staying back. The two barely know each other. Judah is openly gay, rich and loving for love. A Friend of his Glenn has a crush on him but Judah doesn't feel same way. Rocky comes form a lower background and because of covid is losing out this various odd jobs. Over the next few days the two become friends and Judah starts falling for Rocky knowing well he is straight. But he convinces Rocky to be able to date him. They spend some good times together and even end up sleeping together. But reality soon hits and Rocky realizes that he has family obligations to fulfill and really need to look for money. Judah feels heart broken, even though Rocky never committed to him and in an act of desperation invites Glenn trying to court him. Interestingly this does make Rocky jealous and he is now unsure of his feelings towards Judah. Eventually, they both talk it about after a few dramatic incidents (also including Judah's granny revealing the reason for her outburst) and there is a potential for the two boys to proclaim love for each other and do something about it.
The series started well with chemistry between the two boys being very palpable, but somewhere as ether a character or actor Judah stars to mess up things. As an audience I was never able to empathize with him. On the contrary he came out as a very manipulative character, who literally forces himself to date Rocky, pushes him hard to be romantically involved but also is not flexible to understand that someone like Rocky will take time to adjust to this whole new thing he is discovering. Instead he goes to bring Glenn back in life, either to make Rocky jealous or just because he wanted a quarantine boyfriend. Whatever it is, but it was just not right. To be honest, I don't think the makers wanted to portray the character this way, so my guess is that its the flat acting by Judah that spoiled the show to a large extent. Unnecessary rolling of eyes, fake tears etc were not helping. Diametrically opposite etc that Rocky's acting was good, his character was flushed out properly as that of a confused man who has always had responsibilities on his shoulder and is struggling with love, sexuality and responsibility. The sex scene was good but shockingly why such a lame kiss in the end! Remaining actors were just o. There were a few scenes where there was a whole lot of talking but not much happening.
Made at probably very low budget, the series started off well, but somewhere started to get on my nerves, primarily because of one of the leads. Despite that its one of the better shows in all of the crap out there. (5.5/10)
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