Mr Loverman

Name: Mr Loverman
Genre: Drama
Released: 2024-10-14

Network:BBC iPlayer

Drama

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S01E08 - "Episode 8"

Aired on Oct 14, 2024, 11:00 AM

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Mr Loverman is a life-affirming story about family, love, and being true to yourself.Barrington Jedidiah Walker, Esq. Barry to his mates. Trouble to his wife, his daughters, and his lover. Seventy years old, Antiguan born, exuberant Hackney personality, Barry is 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 really going on: a secret, decades-long passionate affair with his best friend and soulmate, Morris. Now entering the next chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their own futures.

Details

Status: Ended
Language: English
Runtime: 29 min
Premiered: October 14, 2024
Ended: October 14, 2024

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Episodes (1 Season · 8 Episodes)

Episode 1

After Carmel catches and reprimands Barry for creeping into bed during the early hours from god knows where, Barry decides it is finally time to ask for a divorce so he can set up a new life with his best friend and lifelong lover Ă˘â‚¬â€ś albeit discreetly. However, Barry's plan to tell Carmel after she returns from church the next morning is scuppered when she brings home her gang of Christian cronies for Sunday lunch.

Oct 14, 2024

31 min

Episode 2

Barry returns from dropping Carmel at the airport alone to find a ringing phone with his furious daughter Maxine on the other end, demanding that he meets her that afternoon. Barry admits to Morris his inability to tell Carmel about the intended divorce.

Oct 14, 2024

28 min

Episode 3

After a night drinking cocktails, Barry accidentally misleads Morris to believe that he is ready to consider recognising their relationship with marriage. Dizzy with romance, Morris asks Barry to meet up and excitedly plans to pop the question himself.As Barry walks through Hackney to meet Morris, we venture with him on a trip down memory lane to the 1990s, when the stakes of being caught were at their most severe.

Oct 14, 2024

30 min

Episode 4

Carmel returns to her father in Antigua, where she reflects on her own secrets, regrets and her side of the complicated marriage story.Ă‚Â

Oct 14, 2024

29 min

Episode 5

Barry and Donna's nights mirror each other's in an episode about how secrets and misunderstandings have shaped their world views.Ă‚Â

Oct 14, 2024

29 min

Episode 6

When Barry is tasked with looking after Daniel, the two men of different generations must learn to relate to one another, until a betrayal provokes an unexpected outburst.Ă‚Â

Oct 14, 2024

29 min

Episode 7

When Barry is tasked with looking after Daniel, the two men of different generations must learn to relate to one another, until a betrayal provokes an unexpected outburst.Ă‚Â

Oct 14, 2024

32 min