Aaron Livesy’s Brutal and Beautiful Coming Out Saga On Emmerdale
While Americans worry themselves about the end of One Life To Live‘s gay storyline, British viewers of the soap opera Emmerdale have just reached a new high: Aaron Livesy has finally come out.
More on the character here (which we had to read, not being regular viewers of the show), but Aaron (played by Danny Miller) and his guardian Paddy Kirk (played by Dominic Brunt) have a good twenty minutes worth of airtime that’s full of tears, confessions, and yes, blood. As we’ve surmised, these two characters hated each other for most of their lives, but now they’ve got a father-and-son relationship.
It actually looks like pretty great television. Can our British viewers weigh in here? Is Emmerdale usually this good?
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I wanted this storyline on youtube for a while and it seemed pretty good. Very slow moving at first, but good.
I was also following Syed and Christian… All the soaps overseas dealing with gay characters seem to be far better than anything available in the US.
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No. 7 · Daniel
We could all use a Paddy Kirk.
But wow … I think that’s one of the best coming-out scenes ever, the writing, the acting, the angles and lighting. ‘Awesomeness’….
As stereotypical as the violently ‘phobic jock/repressed homo is, seeing it played out so powerfully made it novel somehow. Maybe it was the accents. Maybe it was the sheer depth of their pain. I don’t know.
But they should win some sort of award for that.
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Wonderfully..acted. This seen would have gotton a daytime Emmy in America for sure. It’s crazy how little bitty America is the entertainment captial of the world,when there are so many great entertainers out there in europe. Everyone wants to mkae it big in America.
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Emmerdale’s usually quite boring (although a lot of people watch it, so I guess they don’t think so), but British soaps are renowned for their good acting and quality scriptwriting, so like with all of them, the odd bit of good television pops up now and then.