This is Billy MacLellan from The Silence (2019), a shot obviously not taken from the movie. He's standing in a lake, pretending to be naked, biceps, chest, and abs on display, holding up a sign with a Canadian maple leaf and the logo: "Keep calm and save bomb girls."I have no idea what that means,but if it will give me more glimpses of Billy's pecs and abs, I'm all for finding out.
It's a Canadian tv series (2012-2014) about four women working in a bomb factory during World War II.
Sounds dreary, but...
Are there any men?
It looks like each woman gets some: boyfriends, husbands, sons, fiancees who die in the war, or male allies.
Lorna (Meg Tilly), the middle-aged floor manager. Think Paula on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
1. Marco (Antonio Cupo, left), who is ostracized by the other factory workers due to being Italian (Canada is at war with Italy). He begins dating Lorna, which results in a pregnancy and miscarriage. Later he dates Vera (below), and then he dies.
2. Bob (Peter Outerbridge), Lorna's husband, a disabled World War I Vet.
3. Ned (Gabe Gray), a doctor who starts dating Lorna and Bob's daughter Sheila.
Gladys (Jodi Balfour), the heiress, who can't decide on a beau. Definitely Rebecca on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
1. Gene (Brett Dier, left), Lorna and Bob's son, who suffers from PTSD due to his war experiences. Gladys gets engaged to him after one date, even though she's engaged to someone else.
2.James (Sebastian Piggott), Glady's first fiancee, who has an affair with Hazel, gets an STD, and is killed in the war.
Betty (Ali Liebert) the closeted lesbian. Maybe Valencia on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (pansexual, but not closeted).
1. Ivan (Michael Seater, left), who dates Betty before she falls for Kate (below). Afterwards Ivan dates Helen, a Nazi spy (the boy likes women with secrets!). Then he dates Kate, and finally he is killed in a factory explosion
2. Karl (Kjartan Hewitt), an escaped German POW who disses Betty for being in the closet. Well, can you blame her? This is 1941, after all. She could lose her job, be institutionalized as a psychopath, and go to prison.
1. Leon (Jim Codrington, left), an African-Canadian worker, who befriends Kate and gives her advice on starting a musical career.
2. Vernon (John Ralston), Kate's dad, an abusive street preacher. Kate accidentally kills him, but Betty (above) takes the fall.
Wait -- where does Billy McLellan fit into all of this? Turns out that there is a fifth Bomb Girl:
1. Harold (Richard Fitzpatrick), the plant supervisor. Vera sleeps with him to get a job, and gets pregnant.
2. Archie (Billy McLellan), an injured vet who she meets in the hospital. After two episodes, he commits suicide.
What? Billy appears in only a few episodes? He's not even connected to one of the Fab Four?
And the show has no gay men? A lot of lesbians, apparently, but no gay men?
Next!
I just like that women in refrigerators is being reversed.
ReplyDeleteI'm also not sure if 40s gay culture is quite ready for the mainstream. Most straight audiences like their gay couples strictly gendered (i.e., you can guess who's the top and who's the bottom just by looking at them), but any hint of that in 40s gay culture was taboo. Lesbian culture, however, was very gendered, but much less so today.