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’s has said he "loves" the finale, despite the fact that it's not a happy ending all around. In the conclusion of the eight-part drama, the show’s main characters Barry (James) and Morris (Ariyon Bakare) make their relationship publicly official, but being proudly out comes with complications. Barry is struggling to embrace his queerness, and while some of his family members have supported him, it has worsened tensions with others.
In an exclusive interview with , James explained why he feels the finale was a perfect fit. "I love the way it wraps up," he told us. "I think that if it had been one where everybody's cool and everybody's happy and Carmel and Hubert and Morris and Barry are having Sunday lunch together, I'd go, 'F**k off'," James explained.
"Ultimately Barry coming out isn't the end of the story," he shared. "It's arguably the beginning and that's what they've got to navigate. "It's like, you fight and fight and fight for this thing, you get this thing, and then you're on the other side and you kind of go, 'Oh right, there's still more road to go', and I think that's what our ending does at the moment.
" The actor went on to add that Barry and Morris weren’t the only ones "on a new beginning". "The closest thing to a happy ending is Carmel," James told . "I love the way that it's played between Hubert and Carmel and because it isn't just two people who are comfortable in each other's company and they're just going to keep each other company for the rest of [their lives].
"They're at it, and they're at it full-on. It has awakened something in her." His co-star Sharon D Clarke (who plays Carmel) agreed, stating: "She has been sexually awakened in these older years, and that's a wonderful thing to see as well.
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