2.826 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestBarry prepares to tell Carmel the truth he has been hiding for five decades and to face a brave new world.
Londoner Barrington Jedidiah Walker, Barry to his mates, is a seventy-four-year-old, Antiguan-born, exuberant Hackney personality, renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits. Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women. Little does she know what’s happening: a secret, passionate affair with his male best friend and soulmate, Morris. Now facing the final chapter of his life, Barry has big choices that will force his whole family to question their futures.
Acting
Lennie James and Sharon D. Clarke devastate in every frame together.
Costume
Barry's retro suits are characters unto themselves—pure Hackney dandyism.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series adapts Bernardine Evaristo's Booker-winning novel, capturing a specifically British-Caribbean queer experience rarely centered on screen.
Barry's Antiguan patois and Morris's coded language reflect how Windrush-era queer men developed private vocabularies to survive both racism and homophobia.
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