Oh nooo :worry:

...just so incredibly emotional, obviously Colin...but also how it’s now impacting the group in contrast to when AIDS became something that they felt was ‘American’ and their world felt untouchable and untouched by death..ughhhhh, will Richie go back for his results..that whole episode but the end scene with Richie and Live Forever playing...just no words, really.....

watched ep 3 now, that came out out the blue I thought Colin was safe :sad:

...no words, really...it just tears you apart from the beginning to the end and it needed to have the lighter moments as well to make it bearable...Keeley Hawes as Richie’s mum was excellent as her character. Even though the character herself was really quite shocking in her behaviour and very dislike-able...in her heart she obviously deeply loved him but had no idea who he was because she didn’t want to see him and held that image of him that she wanted him to be...

...as heartbreaking as it was and as relentless AIDS was to the LGBT community at that time and as surrounded by fear and death they all became, the story still gave that great sense of love and family in their community....:lovedup:...huge deep breaths...

I have to say I wasn't the BIGGEST fan of how the mother was portrayed in the final episode - a touch of misogyny going on in the writing there tbqfh - and also Jill going in on her so hard in the final scenes felt really off. Her son had literally JUST died and it didn't feel warranted or cathartic or anything... also didn't feel like what Ritchie would have wanted so made Jill come across as selfish in one of her final scenes? I dunno. Again not sure about the writing. Felt like it was written by someone who is not a parent. Hmm.

...Scott she kind of did get that ‘slap’ in that he told her who he was, that there had been 100’s of men...the good, the bad and the ugly/type thing...and his words, something like ...’some of them right bastards but I enjoyed every moment...’...that was her ‘slap’, I felt...he was telling her who he was and even though it had led to him there and losing his life, he would not ever mor could ever change who he was...

....Richie’s mum was a product of her time and she wasn’t really a likeable person because sadly, a product of that time had much bigotry...for me, Keeley Hawes played her in as likeable and sympathetic way as she could, she was superb...:lovedup:...young men were dying, they were dying en masse and as was said...if these were heterosexual men...there would be screaming and rioting in every street and what is this goddamn disease...!!!!!!...but that’s not how it was, they were ‘silent deaths’ and ‘hidden deaths’ because of the bigotry of the time ...they were deaths from cancer or pneumonia or something else, anything else, but they weren’t AIDS...because AIDS would only bring judgement...


...Jill’s character was the ‘mother’ who knew him, who knew Richie and not the ideal or idea of Richie that his mother still lived in...to acknowledge and accept who someone is and to love who they are and not who you would like them to be, is the ‘greater love’ /..the more unconditional love, I feel....Jill became what families had rejected and she loved as a parent loves, she became that for many of the characters...but she was prevented from being with Richie, she was kept from him at his time of death and she was told in a very cold way...’oh he died..’ ...and that was that..?...and how she had to tell others who loved him as well, who had known him completely and loved him...even in his death and a mother/son love that she felt...his mother still couldn’t accept him as Richie, but only ‘her Richie’ and she kept him from the people who loved him and who desperately needed to say goodbye to him...just all very sad but yeah, so much of its time...