Good drama, which had some fleeting moments of interesting photography, and created an almost fantasy environment around the three main places of the story, the squat where George was both sulky and happy, the club, where George was mostly in his element, and in George’s post-success home, where he was holed up as a prisoner of the media, sulky and unhappy.
Whether it’s all completely accurate or not, did these meetings occur like this, or did that actually happen with this character? might possibly be still open to interpretation, (recalling Take It Like A Man and Kirk Brandon’s subsequent court case), but it all worked beautifully well as a story, and the love betrayed was really brought to the fore as the main theme of the drama.
Steve Strange and Malcolm Mclaren were played as pure panto, and Brandon and Moss were clearly more in love with themselves, particularly the former. George though came across as neither of those things, in fact he just seemed like your average young person struggling to remain optimistic despite having feelings of disaffection to the world around and with a stubborn position of raging against it, yet he also had the constant need to fit in someplace.
I think the most sincere moments were the scenes between George and his dad, each of whom seemed on the one hand worlds apart, but at the same time a very genuine bond held their father and son relationship together.
