A huge thank you to Perfectlymatte of MMonline for the images and the interview! (the rest of the images are in the gallery)
Shouting at the TV screen is a pointless exercise. There is a moment, however, in Secret Life (Thursday C4) when you just can't help yourself.
Charlie, played by Matthew Macfadyen, is a polite, repressed young man, desperate for human contact. Quite near the end of the film, he starts to flirt and it's like watching a flower bloom. Hope sparks in his eyes, his stress-locked limbs become graceful, his character seems lit from within - and it's profoundly horrible. Because Charlie is a convicted child sex offender flirting with a 12-year-old girl.