I was faced with a quandary last week when the first part in BBC's two part series Man in an Orange Shirt debuted with hot dudity and gay fucking: "Do I learn about the intricate, compelling plot of this acclaimed and culturally pertinent show enough to write about it, or do I skip it and queef out lusty garbage about Nolan Gould?" Well, you guys know which path I chose! Read me like a damn book. But now that the second part of the series has proven to have even hotter man fucking and gorgeous nude bodiez, I am left with no choice but to skim the surface of this man and his orange shirt!
The television sensation is part of BBC's celebration of the 50th anniversary of legal homosensuality in the UK, and is based on the quasi-true events in Patrick Gale's book documenting the secret gay past of his parents. Part one takes place in the forties, where sexy retro war hotties are forbidden to explore each others' bodies. But they do it anyway. Michael (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and Thomas (James McArdle) develop a romantic relationship initially defined by "bucolic bliss in a countryside cottage" before the realities of a repressed culture settle in:
It is a sad and human story of people trying to do their best when their times allow them no best option... Much of the tension is between Michael’s inability to move beyond the life that is expected of him and Thomas’ inability, or unwillingness, to toe the line.
The second part of Man in an Orange Shirt takes us to present day, where the grandson of Michael, Adam Berryman (Julian Morris) is navigating love and sex on dating apps. Michael faced imprisonment for following his heart. Adam suffers silently from emotional detachment caused by ample hot sex. My generation isn't not the worst:
Adam’s nocturnal adventures, graphically enacted, amounted to an acidic critique of the gay dating apps Grindr and Scruff (here amalgamated as Grufff). Detox took the form of nice designer Steve (David Gyasi), who restored not just his distressed cottage’s interior but Adam’s psyche, which was in a similar condition.
Graphically, indeed! You can check out some of the hot gay sex scenes from Man in an Orange Shirt below, and head to the gallery for some legit desktop background options! And, for inquiring minds, the bare-assed guy in the first pic is an unidentified extra as far as I can tell, and the hot as fucking fuck shirtless army guy in the following pics is Tommy Bastow. And yes, I've already cyber stalked him. Now I just wait and see if he wants to marry me!
Oliver Jackson-Cohen and James McArdle in Part One
Julian Morris and Phil Dunster in Part Two
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