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The show by Russell T Davies airs weekly on Fridays on Channel 4 in the UK, with the entire series readily available on 4 On Demand while US viewers will get a chance to watch the show on HBO Max from 18 February.
It stars Olly Alexander and follows a group of friends who move into a house together, the ‘pink palace’ and are excited to be young and free in the capital. But their world is turned upside down when a mysterious illness that is said to spread among gay men strikes across the globe.
And let’s not forget the 200,000 punters, denied for a second year running the joys of a long weekend’s hedonism in the beautiful Somerset countryside. I love Glastonbury; I’m very fond of Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily (even though we don’t share the same politics); and I find it heartbreaking to see such a mighty institution undoubtedly the world’s greatest music festival wantonly driven to the brink of destruction.
But I feel a degree of Schadenfreude, too, for I count Glastonbury’s closure in part as a self-inflicted injury. I’ve been surveying my country this last twelve months, watching the people’s hysterical overreaction to Chinese coronavirus and the way they’ve swallowed wholesale and unquestioningly everything the government’s propagandists tell them.