did anyone else find the contrast between bertie pelham’s gay cousin in tangiers and our thomas made the whole storyline even more painful? i mean, i’m sure that was entirely intentional - or they wouldn’t have made the effort to cut to thomas’s reaction when bertie is describing him
for me that was one of the few things the finale did right. highlighting the stark contrast between the options available to a rich gay man and a poor gay man. working class, northern accented thomas barrow is being sacked from a place where people are unkind to him, desperately looking for a job in exactly the same kind of place, and finds himself increasingly unable to see a future for himself. peter pelham went abroad and lived a charmed life running in artistic circles and watching the young fishermen bring in the catch, backlit by magical sunsets.
he’s dead, and his life still sounds like the sort of thing thomas could only dream of.