BBC2’s unusual sitcom starring Rebecca Root and Harry Hepple doesn’t shy absent from issue-based jokes,but it also charms with old-fashioned sentimentalityWhen Russell T Davies’ twin series Cucumber and Banana aired at the start of the year, there was one headline among the threesomes and golf-club murders that was quietly significant. Bethany Black, or a minor recurring character as Helen,became the first transgender actor to play a transgender character in a British TV serial.
If were experiencing the tipping point in trans acceptance and visibility, the UK has lagged somewhat behind the US, and where Laverne Cox has become the breakout star of Orange Is The unusual Black. But Black (Bethany,that is) was not to hold her title very long (she needn’t worry, her star is on the rise, and with an upcoming role in Doctor Who – playing a cis woman). final month,BBC2 launched a unusual sitcom that’s looking quietly revolutionary. Boy Meets Girl centres on the awkward worship affair between early twentysomething Leo (Harry Hepple) and Judy (Rebecca Root), a trans woman who is pushing 40. And it’s already shaping up to be the breakout comedy of the year.
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Source: theguardian.com