Quite so.

I hope so. If he is an arty person, he might enjoy it a lot. Beautiful screenplay, very atmospheric. With London Spy, you need to be able to suspend disbelief, perhaps more than with other shows. If he prefers his thriller with a waterproof plot, or doesn't care for love stories, he might prefer something else.
Did I say I enjoyed it? 

Last edited by Harriet (February 29, 2016 9:52 am)

Let us know how you liked it! 

That's good to hear Liberty, I must admit I had a slight hesitation about the possible love scenes. The Fall had a few intimate moments but it was fine, so I'm sure this will be too. It feels so immature to even be thinking about being embarrassed by it!

What I have seen of Better Call Saul looks pretty good, but we love our UK-based dramas

Yikes, I just did a search for "London spy nsfw" to get an idea of how explicit... I'm not sure I'm brave enough to watch this with my dad 

It's not immature at all.  My son and I seem to be unembarrassable (if that's a word?) in that respect, but I know we're the exception rather than the rule, which is why I mentioned it! 

The sex scenes between the two characters are tastefully filmed and an important part of the plot.  I wouldn't really call them explicit, but YMMV!  Very mild spoilers about the sexual content:

There is also a group sex scene, and references to heavy BDSM activity and auto-erotic asphyxiation, and shots of sex toys.  Again, plot-related, and nothing explicit, but maybe enough to make some people uncomfortable watching with their parents .. or make the parents uncomfortable!   Definitely worth a couple of moments of mild discomfort to watch such a great show, though!

There is some interesting stuff about relationships between parents and chidren in the show too, which I think makes it more fun to watch together. 

I think the one main sex scene is very beautiful, and what Liberty mentioned are indeed rather references.
I consider myself rather squeamish, and had no bigger issues. In fact, I've seen more disturbing stuff on German Public Broadcasting 

Best of luck.  Whatever happens, I hope you two have a good time. 

I have watched things with "gay sex" before with my parents and while in one or two cases (it was the male-male ones, my mum seemed more okay watching female-female in Carol than the male-male in Normal Heart or even the beginning of one in Orphan Black), and despite a couple awkwardness on the two occasions I mentioned in the brackets, it wasn't a huge deal since there were other things in the story.

ukaunz wrote:

I have found the scene which I think you're referring to, and yes it is beautiful and not gratuitous (and quite hot actually). I also found gifs of the group scene... I'll just mention it has gay love scenes and see what he says. I've also got an episode of Happy Valley we can watch instead. Or Hamlet!

There were complaints against the BBC for not warning of *gay sex scenes* in the intro.
The BBC had simply informed the audience there will be sex scenes in the after 9 programme.
Complaints were rejected by the Ofcom Authority in charge:
“Our broadcasting rules do not discriminate between scenes involving opposite sex and same sex couples.”

 

Good point Harriet, and good on the BBC. Maybe I should only warn my dad that there will be sex scenes and leave it at that. I'm sure he'll be cool with it and I'm worrying over nothing